What happens
Danny Manson, a former dancer, hides in a shabby hotel with his wife Baby, afraid that the gangster Chigger will come to kill them both. Chigger eventually arrives, and Danny finds himself with a strange power that can bring death simply by his wishing it. Baby, Queenie, and a reporter all become entangled in his fear and his growing sense that he is not in control of what happens around him. Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents Night Is My Shroud, written by Milton Lewis, with Kenneth Lynch as Danny and Ann Shepard as Baby. The episode first aired on October 24, 1949.
A shabby hotel room and the streets of a city at night
Characters: Danny Manson, Baby, Chigger, Queenie
Listen for: Danny's fear that Chigger will come to kill him and Baby, and the moment he realizes he can cause death by wishing it
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.