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The House Of Horror

The Shadow · February 13, 1938 · 24 min · 1,790 words

The transcript of “The House Of Horror”, an episode of The Shadow first broadcast February 13, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Shadow free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Years ago on the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret. The hypnotic power to flouge men's minds so they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, some of the Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belong.

Today's story, the house of horror. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Listen to Gorilla House, kid. Yeah, what about the watchmen? There's only two of them in the whole zoo this time of night.

It won't be around here for an hour. Now this is the scruiest job we ever done. Put in a snatch and a gorilla. Why does he want a gorilla? Is he gonna terrorize the city or what?

I never asked no questions on a job. And this is a job, so let's get at it. There's the cage over there. Aah! Aah! That's him. That's the gorilla. Got that coliform? Yeah, right here.

Give me a... Oh, come on this rag. I'll wait all this stuff to the dynamite. Okay. Take a whiff of this, big boy. Oh that's right that'll do it a job. Don't let his fish in.

I'll let him make cage. I'm going in. Wait Mac. I'll open it up. One minute. Hey, take it easy big boy. Mac, are you alright? Shut up ya fool. Alright now come in here. Hey, indicate.

It's alright he's passed out now. Come on, come on. Help me move. Okay, a few say so without a light. Hey. He ain't exactly now baby. No. Alright, here let's try and hold them off.

Fine. Yeah, but, get that flesh right out of my ass. What are you doing? The gorilla. You're taking the gorilla out of here. You figured that one out, Maori. Well, you can't do that, eh?

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