The City of the Dead 1 (The Adventure Begins)

Adventures by Morse. Carlton E. Morse presents... The City of the Dead, featuring Captain Friday. If you like high adventure, come with me. If you like the stealth of intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder, come with me.

But first, listen to a word from our sponsor. The City of the Dead. There are 10,000 citizens in the City of the Dead, Each with a white marble slab indicating each residence. The gates of the city of the dead have long been closed to newcomers.

It is a city whose population has remained unchanged for the last ten years, and the mayor of this city is Joshua Friday. Some call him caretaker of the old cemetery in the valley. But anyone who knows Joshua Friday at all calls him mayor.

He is the only living person in the city of the dead. That is, unless you care to include Lamy Fink, a slow-witted fellow who does kitchen-police duty, and a little gardening in the city during the day, and retires beyond its precincts at night.

The city of the dead lies in a tiny valley, twenty-five miles from the suburb of a great city. It is off the main highway and completely isolated from the world. But now it's nine o'clock on a moonlit, windy night in October.

Come on, come on, get out of that car. You heard me. What do you want? You want me to plug you? Oh Jimmy, do what he says. You too, girl. Get out. You let go of me.

You let that girl alone. Then get out of the car. Both of you. Eh, I'll start walking. No, the other way. But that's toward the graveyard. You heard me, and don't look back or they'll pick up your bodies in the morgue wagon in the morning.