076- Evening Primrose -Harry Bartell

Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights, is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the air next week on Thursday, September 1st. You are groping through the midnight darkness of a gigantic department store.

A hundred eyes are staring at you. A hundred hands are reaching for you, and your most urgent desire is to escape. We offer you escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

Tonight we escape to a fantastic world of night dwellers, as John Collier imagines it in his eerie story, evening primrose. Sadie. Sadie, what's the matter? It's me. Oh, you nearly scared me to death. What do you mean coming in so quiet?

I don't mean to scare you. I thought you'd be asleep, I didn't want to wake you. Oh, Sam, I'm glad you're home. Hey, what's the matter? Oh, it's terrible. You gotta do something, Sam. What's terrible?

It's this. Just look at this. What's terrible about that looks like an ordinary pair of paper to me. That's just it. That's what I thought too. But it's got writing in it. It's awful. Now, wait a minute. Maybe you better tell me what this is all about.

Well, today I went shopping at Bracy's Department store. I needed some writing paper, so I picked this up. It was on top of the pile, and I bought it, and I brought it home. But tonight when I opened it, I found it's got writing in it.

What's not so terrible? Just take it back tomorrow and make them give you no one. No, you don't understand. It's what's written in it that's so terrible. What do you mean what's written in it? Here, you gotta read it.