Three Skeleton Key

Thus Spence, and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. Among the great classics of radio drama, none is more memorable than three skeleton key, although few who have heard it would remember it by that title.

To them it is simply that story about the rats, and that it is an unforgettable experience in horror. We repeat it now because we can't help ourselves. We like to scare as well as you like to be scared.

Listen, listen then as Vincent Price stars in Three Skeleton Key, which begins in just a moment. And now, we skeleton key starring Vincent Price. A tale well calculated to keep you in. Suspense. I am picture this place.

A grey tapering cylinder welded by iron rods and concrete to the key itself. A bare black rock, 150 feet long, maybe 40 wide. That's a low tide. At high tide, just the light rising 110 feet straight up out of the ocean.

And all about it, the churning water, grey, green, scum-dappled, warmest soup. And swarming with gigantic, backlight, devilfish, great violet schools of Portuguese man-a-war, a man award and, yes, sharks, the big ones, 15 footers. And as if this wasn't enough, there was a hot dank rotten smelling wind that came at us day and night off the jungle swamps of the mainland.

A wind that smelled like death. Set in the base of the light is a watertight bronze door. And in you go and up and up, round and round. Over the light store room is the food store room and over the food store room is the bunk room for the three of us left and over the bunk room is the living and cooking room and over the living and cooking room is