The Man Who Came Back: Dark Fantasy (November 14, 1941)

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“The Man Who Came Back” is an episode of Dark Fantasy, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 14, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Keith Grange has been acquitted of killing Philip Blake, whom he shot in self-defense after a quarrel over Sylvia, Blake's wife. Grange, now living in a new home, is troubled by the feeling that Blake is not truly gone. Sylvia becomes frightened when a ring she gave Blake turns up as a gift to her. Grange's guests arrive at a masquerade ball, and a figure in black keeps watching Sylvia. Grange confronts a strange presence in his study. The episode is part of the Dark Fantasy series, first broadcast on November 14, 1941, with Ben Morris as Keith Grange and Eleanor Audley as Sylvia. The story continues as Grange and Sylvia struggle with the unexplained events around them.

New York City, including Grange's apartment, a courtroom, a taxi cab, and Grange's new home during a masquerade ball

Characters: Keith Grange, Philip Blake, Sylvia, Casey, Captain Sullivan, Dorothy

Listen for: The sound of Blake's piano melody playing in Grange's study with no one seated at the instrument

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.