In Fear and Trembling

Suspens. This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program Suspens. Our star tonight is Miss Mary Aster, one of Hollywood's most charming and resourceful actresses, and the lady who is no stranger to the art of keeping audiences in suspense.

Ask anyone who saw her in the Maltese Falcon or across the Pacific. The story called In Fear and Trembling by J. Donald Wilson is tonight's tale of suspense. If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure.

In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And so it is within fear and trembling, and Miss Mary Aster's performance, we again hope to keep you in...

Sustains! And the edge of the cliff overlooking the seas is a grey stone mansion, whether beaten by the storms of several decades. To this mansion Gilbert Durand brought his bride Lucia, that was four years ago.

Gilbert and Lucia were quite happy until a year ago, when Lucia's half-sister Beverly became to live with them. Gradually something began to happen. Lucia felt it, felt that some insidious horror was beginning to naught her happiness. She began to know that Gilbert's order was beginning to cool. He became more absorbed in his writing.

Then she felt the cold, clamminess of the great stone structure creeping about her, clutching at her heart. Anyone who saw her could tell that fear was growing her mind, a fear of something which she could not or would not explain. One evening, Lucia, having excused herself at dinner, tossed on her bed in a fretful sleep.