What happens
Clara Fleming, living in a parched desert valley during a brutal heat wave, is warned by her doctor Vincent Bronson to leave immediately. She insists that her dead sister Evelyn holds her there, and the two visit Evelyn's grave, where they find a diary whose final entry threatens revenge against Clara and her husband Stephen. Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents this episode, Dead Heat, written by Ed Adamson and Bob Sloan, with Mercedes McCambridge as Clara and Carlos Romero as Vincent, first broadcast August 15, 1949. Strange events unfold as the heat deepens and the characters grow increasingly uneasy about what is real.
A hot, drought-stricken desert valley with a hillside cemetery and an isolated house at the northern end of the valley.
Characters: Clara Fleming, Vincent Bronson, Stephen, Evelyn Fleming, Sheriff Cooper, Lucille Lang
Listen for: Clara's insistence that her dead sister Evelyn is still alive and watching her, and the diary entries that seem to threaten revenge.
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.