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Speaker 1 (00:01):
BBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents, Come in Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
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October thirty first is a date of deep antiquity in
the Christian calendar.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It is the day.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Before All Souls Day, all Hallow's Day, the eve of
which is known as hallow Een, a time for trick
or treat and benevolent mischief, long celebrated by children, but
the history of this eve is mephistic and malevolent.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
In the Celtic.
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Calendar, those brooding, dark, bloody people celebrated it as the
last best day of the year, a day given over
to witches and warlocks, and they're sinful and wicked rebels.
We we found her this morning, ma'am, just the other
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side of Grant's Woods. The child child was dead. Oh wow,
Well that's the question she'd been savage by. Well, well,
if it wasn't for the fact we ain't had a panther,
a cougar, or a mountain lion in this area for
the last twenty years, I'd i'd figure one of them
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for the cars.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It wasn't what do you figure.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
One, missus Taylor. That's just what brought me to you,
our mystery drama. The Queen of Cats, written and especially
for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Tammy Grimes.
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I'll be that shortly with that one. If I were
to mention casually lycanthropy, chynanthropy, or let's say versipellis, I
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doubt if the words would stir any emotion. But if
you knew that all these terms apply to the transmigration
not only of souls, but of bodies. Further than that,
if you knew they apply to the unholy and unnatural
exchange of the human body for that of an animal.
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If you are informed that these words are part of
the glossary that refers to the werewolf specifically and in
all his forms, would you not feel a run of
icy fingers down the backbone, a clutch of terror in
the throat, a desperate feeling to cry out, let me
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wake up.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I don't want to live this nightmare. If you don't,
just turn off the dial.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
But if you do, don't go away.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It huns me. It you are requesting bullet swish for
me sho.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
In other days they would have been arrows before that
speah s swish same flung find a mark When he
sentually after century each time.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Last he made more noise, he had to die of concern.
And I know none of the weapons turned against me.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
It's a shop.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Of my stick. It's so literary.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Besides, even if I am.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What a smartner, have ninety nine times nine yes to
use up since the dawn of time, nine times more
than a less a god.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I am a cat.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You'll see now, behave yourself plenty for all the boy
here bull antnet behave yourself a location now, then they're plenty, brawl, good,
wholesome food cold?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Why do people always drop in unexpectedly at dinner time?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Coming?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
All right, I'll be good, kitty. Maybe a new brother
or sister is coming to join you?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Can I help you?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
A large basket? Ma'am? I wonder if I could come
in for a short spell?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Why, boy the welcome sheriff. Can I get here some time?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
DT?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
No, I reckon not, ma'am. We've not come by.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Sorry, I don't have anything stronger. I know how you
meant are No, No, it ain't there me, missus Taylor.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I'm here strictly on business.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wow, won't you set down anyway?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You suppose there might be somewhere a bit more private.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Than here in front of all my boys and girls,
busy the hearty here. Of course, let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Out of the kitchen and go into the city.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Now, don't use it all that much being alone. So
I hope it's you visited.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I'm sure we'll be just right, Miss Taylor. Now, I'm
I'm sorry they have to bring this up, but well,
it's sort of a question about Yeah, ay, your cats.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
What about them?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well, y, you gotta meet you got a powerful lot
of 'em.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I do.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I know my neighbors figure me in my teest, but
I don't wanna be just plain human.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I wanna be humane, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I I don't mean to score you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
But these rockies, we're lucky enough to live and breathing,
are one of this country's great natural preserves. But we
got outside. Has come by the thousands, from the east
and the south, the north and the far west. We
make them welcome here, and all we ask is they
leave it the same as they come. So why did
they leave all their debris behind them?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The garbage is nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We can pick it up or let it rotten to
the earth, the animals or something else.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Again.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
The animals, pets, birds, dogs, raccoons, whatever, but most of
all the easiest animals to take advantage of the cat.
They fondle them, feed 'em and pet 'em for a
quick summer, and then when they went.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Very whale home, leave him defending for themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You think me local because I gathered this days and
give them a home.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I t I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I what can I do now?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Why?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, I don't wanna make this any more unpleasant than
it has to be. Man. But well, one of the
Clark children, seriously to be exact, going on sixteen, disappeared
last night. We we found her earlier this morning in
silver Mine Woods, just the other side of Grants Clare.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And I'm I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I don't think some ma'am the child was the child
was dead? Oh my dear, Well, that's the question. She'd
been savage. But well, if I didn't know, we haven't
had a panther or a cougar or a mountain lion
in this area in the last twenty years, I might
figure something like that for the cop right, And.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
If you don't figure something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
What do you, well, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
No one of 'em alone, of course, But if they
was in a pack.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Are you trying to suggest that my cats could have
been responsible? Well, I'll only do my duty by asking
questions and then let me answer them for you. I
have sixty three cats, each of which has a name,
and each one is just as different as you and me.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I let them run free.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
If they cannot go beyond the fence, I keep 'em
inside of 'em.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Silver Mine Woods is at least.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Four or five miles beyond my compound.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And every one of my cats has accounted for.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
As of this minute and last night. And the door
out is who the power archs to the lat Oh, not.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
In exactly me, miss Taylor, as the rest of the town.
This isn't the first accident of this kind that we've
had since, uh, since I came to town, well, since
you took to collecting all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Cats, and since when he's that been a crime.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, it ain't exactly a crime, man, I, Miss Taylor.
I'm asking you to be reasonable. The people in this
town are up in arms that poor child was badly mutilated.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
They they ain't wanna blame it online little pussy get
that can prove my little.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Boardy it's more responsible.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Maybe they can't, but can you prove they weren't? Man,
I got a woman here. They are forming a citizens committee.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Vigilante is more like.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, I hope it won't come to that. No, No,
they they need to go to law first.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Alright, I'll meet them at Tenney for a tenny.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That could be an expensive process and it'll be hard
put to find any local law it would wanna represent
you in this. They wouldn't make 'em a heap of friends.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Down Port one if I have to.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, I's afraid they might be stubborn. Anyways. Meantime, I
have a I have a warrant here to search the premises,
what for evidence of any kind? I'd uh, I'd like
to see the cats.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I'd better come with you.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Were you afraid you might turn me apart?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
My cats are as gentle as babies. I just wanna
make sure you don't do any I'm the brim.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I knew it would come to this sooner or later.
I could move on a fight for me. There was
no choice. I had to protect my cats. I wasn't
going to be ousted. I would stay fight.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
This is the office of Anthony Reddick, attorney at law. Well,
come in, the door's open. I'll mister Reddick isn't here,
but I expect him back from court any moment. Be
with you in a minute, please sit down. Yes, yes, sir,
I uh, well you see, I'm not as regular as secretary.
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I'm just as uh his landlord. Yes, sir, yes, or
I'll tell Tony. I mean mister Reddick to call you back.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ma'am.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Did you wanna see mister Reddick?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Quiet harrish, Yes, miss I do.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He should be back any moment, could you wait?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'm quite good at it.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I'm sure he could make time to see you.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm sure he could since he doesn't have any other clients.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That's not true, of course it is.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
That's why I'm here, but it's very brave.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Of you to cover up for it. I'm I'm not
covering up.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
But as he said before, my dear, you're not his secretary.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
How do you know?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Because I'm a very.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Old lady who knows a great deal more about too
many things than possibly she'll carry.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm sorry, but they didn't have any yoga to.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
B well, the client Tony I didn't have a chance
to get her name.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I Sherish, my name is missus Duda. Mister Reddick, Well
how do you do? Uh honey? What uh Carrie?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
If you wanna take the groceries while I take missus
Taylor at the office.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And uh, that's quite an amazing cat.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, she's my most favorites, although one shouldn't have favorites.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What breed is she?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I don't think Carrish could be confined to any one breed.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
She's unique, very special, captain and the ritual.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Sure we'll all go in together.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Oh I d I don't think I'm neither mean you did.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I'm mister et it in me and harsh. You see,
she and I are never really separated, and so the
girl's puzzled.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Look, but I didn't start to extreme. How could I
that Harrish she was my other self or one of them,
my mirror image or one of them?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I wondered to myself, as I've followed this young man
into his inner office, what he might think.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
If he could see howish human shape that was a
reflection of me?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Some day he would But he drew me, this young
man with his blonde Viking looks, and this sinuous, easy
ripper of his muscles that I could see beneath his clothes.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
As he woved.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's a long time and desire, like a sleeping snake,
uncoiled and undulated all along the old body I had
lived in too long.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It first came safety, as I told him what had
brought me there?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Well from once you tell me, I don't think you
have any real problem, missus Dayling, but you're afraid to
take my case.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And why do you hesitate?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You? Whoa? I am a lawyer. I I should take
a look into it. First of all, you think.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
My cats are responsible for the child's death, not if
what you tell me is true.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Hush hushers, You see.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It isn't only my cape.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm afraid for. Oh my god, massister, my violence.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm an old woman alone. I could be in danger too.
I need help, please.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I don't think you have anything to be afraid of. Well,
neither of us do. If you want me, missus Taylor,
you have me. And like they say in the old
funny story, that goes for your cat too.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Nothing to be afraid, Oh, my naive and trusting young lawyer.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
My need for you is far different than the other
life force which drove me to reach the sustenance, but
no less strong. You were my desire, my blond and
trusting love God.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And although you couldn't know it yet, like the Queen
Bee and the Chosen Drone, your fate was written.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
In fire and destruction. Your doom was se.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The nightmare has only begun, the fabric of it still
in the weaving, the terror and disaster and agony not
yet stitched into the tapestry. Remember I said in the beginning,
no need to listen unless you couldn't resist. For those
of you who can't, I shall return shortly with that too.
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A sweet old lady, Sarah Taylor, lives with sixty three
stray cats that she cares for. Many people are of
compassion or kind enough to sacrifice something of themselves to
help and care for defenseless and abandoned animals. But this
old lady is a very special lady, a Halloween figure
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of monstrous and terrifying evil. If you haven't guessed that already,
you will shortly begin to find out.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Hush, hush, my daughter, your mother is taking care of
all of you.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I'm nothing to hear and therese a move against us.
Learned the powers terrors.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
As long as the say me you rule the knights. Ah,
there's the power and the way you will inherit will
and I and your queen and whatever dies. I choose
to cloak myself. You like me as I am, not
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m as I wasn't my first the incarnation harrish ool
oh oh, this guy's I could hold from the world
and the fall. But I need the flesher virgins to
keep this fleshhole and viable, and the chase they tell
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them worthy. Still, there's one time, praps. There's a full moon,
and whenever the need arises, I shall take your shape,
our shape, my original home, and stuck my prey.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
A man, excuse me?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Tell me what the sheriff is here to see you?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh shure, then carry I'm already on my way.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Mister ready, Hey, money, could look a new secretary. Got Wow,
that isn't my secretary. It's my fiancee. Oh well, now
it's a pleasure to meet up with you, ma'am. You're
not from these parts all.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Up north columns, but we met in the east of
College County. It is a shore of a larger basketmw
how are.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You, sir?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Well, A whole lot better just to see some of
as pretty pretty as you man. Uh Tony one's.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Big day Oh late spring, I guess when as Carrie's graduated.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I'm just out here on a visit Sheriff. Between terms,
I do get to miss the man.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Ah yuh m.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I wonder missus chisholm, if if you could leave me
here with Tony uh uh mister Reddick for a minute.
I I got some official business with him.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh of course.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Uh look, honey, why don't you go back to the hotel.
You don't have to tie yourself up here, but I
like it here.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Besides, I had some official business with you myself.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It's as soon as you're free by Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Nice meeting, you buy min's chisholm. Tony mm, Now why'd
you have to go mix into this whole mess with
Sarah Till and her damn cats?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I think the town was giving a very sweet and
kind old lady a ross.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Swinging kind my for she's a crack brain just because
she digs cat one, cat two, three, three from four maybe,
but sixty three?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You think that's natural for her? Yes, she's a little eccentric,
But you know as well as I do that she
isn't breaking any laws. That's the idea for harassing her.
You know you're leaning on her.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Leaders Sure, sure, I'm leaning on her. You don't know
why because the whole town's scared and is pushing and
pressure and meat.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You don't seriously think these mysterious deaths in the past
you have anything to do with her cats. Where's the evidence?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, there's nanny.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I know these girls weren't more by any house cat
or even a.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Whole pack 'em.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Everybody in town knows, that knows that it's one big
cat we got aunt down, but that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
We haven't been able to and that's what's getting to
the people.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It's still no reason to start picking on a poor
old lady who gives sheltered animals that human beings have abandoned.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I'm sure to get a medal instead of threats and abuse.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Some there's just no sense to a mob, and that's
what this town is becoming. I gotta stop it while
I still got some control. That Miss Taylor and her
army of cats is just like what's like lighting a
match next to a short few wsh. We gotta find
out what animal's out there in the dark, sure, But
till we do, we also gotta get rid of all
them cats, or this town's gonna explode high, wide and fancy. Oh,
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my innocent and.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Beautiful one, my naive adonnus, How simple all problems seemed
to be?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Young?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Why should you draw me so crue? I was no knights,
and to whom all conor knowledge is.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Not only familiar, but the frequent indult. And yet and
yet those an escapable desire, the hope and compouch and
makes the phoenix rise again and against me I should
It was the girl who began at all. She walked
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into my parlor by herself, missus Taylor. Yes, I don't
know if you remember me, but oh of course I do,
My dear, you were that nice girl and mister Reddick's office,
who wasn't his secretary.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
As you guessed?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Somehow? I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It wasn't very complicated. What brings you here?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I'm just here visiting Tony, and I'm renting a room.
Whoever was there before me picked up this poor little
kitten and made it a pet. Then, when her vacation
was over, walked out and left it behind the man.
They won't take him, and I'm going back to college
where they don't allow.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Pets in my dorm.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I was wondering if Melia goes, my dear, come right in.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Just let me take care of you.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
First of all, give me the little kidd Has he
been there?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, then we'll just put.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Him out with the rest of the boys and girls
to play. You see, they are the whole backyard to
folly catch. It's over acre.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh no, no, no, play time isn't over. No one
comes back in the house. He's a new friend field.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Sometimes they really are a handful.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I don't know how you manage without any Hell.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Who I manage. I'm not completely alone, you know, I
have my well.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Relative is always with me.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Tell me, did Tony he send you Tony?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Felt he might be doing a little checking up on
me before he takes me as his client.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
No, no, honestly, this was my idea.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I don't meddle on Tony's business ever.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Then I'm sure you will make him a very good wife.
You are going to be married, don't you.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yes, this spring when I graduate.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So what is it you study that is so important.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Oh, a sort of obscure feel that. I'm sure you
wouldn't be very interested in parapsychology.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Just what is that?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Well, it's the study of well, experiences and happenings beyond
the natural explanation.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You mean the supernatural?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well, depending on the definition.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I mean ghosts and spirits and vampires and wear wolves
and the like.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Well, you know that's that's why it's sort of hard
to explain to to someone who well, I mean, I
don't mean you couldn't understand, but well, to science see
not a superstition, the real supernatural something we aren'tyet.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Ready to explain, like esp. Esp.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Extra sensory perception. You know, it's like clairvoyance or precognition.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
My such big words.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh nah, I didn't mean to be a boy or
not at all. I did you have all my interests?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Tell me?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Are you like that?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Can you see things in advance? Or get messages from
another world? W?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Well, I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I think that's why I'm studying. But well, I haven't
yet proved.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It all the way. Maybe it would be better if
you didn't, uh tell me, when do you have to
go back east? Well?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Tony's driving me to Denver on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I fly from there.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Then you only have a couple of days left, that's right.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Then I disappear, he appear.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Tell me, are you going straight back to college or
university or whatever you call it in college?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
And as a matter of fact, I'm not going straight back.
I guess it's a little wanderlust. But I'm making a
couple of stopovers on the way, you know, drop in.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
On some old friends, going to be out of touch.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Well, never really thought of it that way, but yeah,
I guess I am. I I really must run now.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
About the kitten. And I guess maybe maybe I should
say goodbye.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Of course I I.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Shouldn't think we'll be seeing each other again. Goodbye, my
dear goodbye. You might tell you Tony, I'd like to
see him as soon as he.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Has time for me.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I watched her move away from me, lies long and
the stride, loose and easy.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
With the spring of yours. How I envied her for
being young, and for being carefull, and for knowing.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That soon she will be beside that vital man. Though touching,
loving and being loved.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
The wounds are change, are blowing again.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I feel the pull of the moon, the call of
all the ancient carnal appetite stirring in me.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The head is scent of blood, and my rostrant death is.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
In the air.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I feel it's trailing scars, touching me like smoke, swearing
about me, tempting me to destruction.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
But who's whose destruction? And is it what? There is?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The musings of Sarah Taylor, a kindly little old woman
with a fondness for cats. Is she becoming senile? And
is her brain stocked with the dreams of madness? Or
is she something so primarily malevolent that she stretches beyond
the borders of our belief? I shall return shortly without three.
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In JM. Barry's play, Peter Pan, the tiny slipper of
darting reflecting light who is called tinker Bell.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
When she is dying and fading from the.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Light of the world, Coade is revived by Peter Pan's
fervent plea to the audience, if you believe in fairies,
clap your hands and tinker Bell will be saved, or
words to that effect. It is an appeal that never fails.
Young and old find themselves responding even vocally and certainly
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from the heart, do we believe as profoundly or even
more so in the spirits of darkness and terror and
total destruction. It's a question you may answer for yourself
after the conclusion of our tale.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Uh yes, mister Reddick, Tony the speaking.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Miss l Yes, I was wondering to that sweet child
carry give you my message?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Ah, yes, ma'am, she did. I was gonna call you
first thing this morning, but you beat me to it.
I didn't wanna call too early. Heaven, I've been up
since dawn. My kiddies waked me with the sun. I've
just been waiting until you got to your office.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Even thought you might be later with a young lady.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
To dally with.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well, there hasn't been much time for dalliance. I was
up all night with the sheriff hunting that tent, the cougar,
whatever it is we got killing here.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Does that mean you ain't coming out to see me?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
What No, ma'am. As a matter of fact, I want
to talk to myself. I'll be out to see you
right after lunch.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
That's right, I'll be up for you.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Good morning, Tony, Hey, darling, I thought you'd still be
catching some shut eye after last night. I didn't know
he was here. You were on the phone. I didn't
want to bar ride in. The door was open.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I know I couldn't help overhearing the end of your conversation.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
You were talking to the cat lady.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, gonna go out there and see you later and
uh bring some bad news to her. But first, Uh
we forget that and proceed to uh this.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
M hm. Now that's the way to start a day. Yeah,
I didn't finish it. Uh, you'll have to go back
to that damn university.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I thought I did, but I'm beginning to wonder if
I should.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
He ain't a wait a minute to with your degree
right around the corner. I don't wanna interfere with that.
You come first in my life, Tony. I'll buy that
with reservations. I mean, honey, we have it all planned.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
I know.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
That was before.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Before I began to get the bad vibes about us,
mainly you.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
I I get this message that you're in danger me,
both of us.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Oh, I don't quite know.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
It's well, I know you kind of laugh about esp
Oh wait, whoa, I I don't laugh at it. I
just don't buy it. Maybe you'd better. What are you
talking at? It's something to do with that missus Taylor.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
She isn't what she seems to be.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
She isn't just a sweet old lady with a thing
for stray cats. I mean she isn't just a sweet
old lady. You mean she's right off the tracks? No? No,
I mean a whole lot more than that. Tony Homely
a minute, Hey, I'm scared. Come on, they take it
down to my heel. Come on, sit down here. Yeah, hey,
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that's better, right, I come on, level w What is this?
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I don't know how to tell you, Tony. You mean
the sheriff and a bunch of others were out all
night hunting. You know, Did you see any signs of
this big cat, this whatever it is that that killed
that young girl?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Were there any tracks around.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Around where it happened. No, on the ground was soft enough,
so they should have been.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
That's why folks got the notion that maybe it wasn't
one big one, but uh a whole lot of small
ones that.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Did the damage. Were there any small tracks?
Speaker 6 (31:04):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So how did a big cat like a panther get
to that girl? I don't know, honey, what are you
getting at.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Three other girls were killed this year, weren't they?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yes? When, Uh, I don't know. Let's see why.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
One early in February, then in we May sometime, and
the one before this, and well, women, I know just
when it was. It was August first, the day after
my birthday, tenderness, goodness, ndness, and now Halloween.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Hey, Carrie, hang in there. You sound like you're going
around a bend. I'm turning some strange corners.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
And finding myself in dark, evil places.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
But I can't help it. I told you I was
getting bad vibes.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Well, Han, if messing around in parapsychology and metaphysics is
gonna get you like this, maybe you shouldn't go back
to college.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Isn't parapsychology exactly. It's just, Tony, part of our courses
are not in science, but in history. I mean, we
have to study the Kabala, demonology, witchcraft and go on.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
But that's just superstition, a perversion of anything that's really
scientifically supernatural.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Right at this moment, I'm not sure, Tony. Don't go
and see missus Taylor Plea.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I mean, I've got to. She's a client, and why
not because it's food it's Halloween. And whether or not
you think.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
I'm crazy, I think she's a witch.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Man witch, the meddling middle fool with a child as
dapplings into.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
A world far beyond a is. She thought she had
special perceptions, had she.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
No knowledge of how rudimentary they were and how sophisticated
in total mind are. But now she's loose to wom
the disaster, and no one can blow them out for
themselves unless both she and her man's slave are destroyed
before their knowledge can infect and drive an already uneasy
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town too, an unchecked witch hunt.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
The first one, last even to come is suspicions, and
someone better than me for that. Harrish mm, Harish the
spell binding.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
The sensual supremeslacious epitome of man's basest desires. Shummel up, yes, mistress.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Of my soul, harish my domestic familia.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I give you back your own shape as you began
when you first evolved from the cat, and I abjure you,
this capture and enslave. The young man Tony Reddick, wash
his mind of all suspicion of me and us and ours,
and of a child woman who put it there.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
It shall be done it will be done.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I so command you, in the name of him whose
name must never be said.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Aloud, do not fail. I will not fail. If you do,
you will send us back to full slavery as a beast,
and you and I will cease to exist from now
to the end of time. Go he's here, won't you
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come in?
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Think you?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I wanted to see missus Taylor. Is she and she's
not really too well? M she's not dead. She asked
me to see you instead. I'm her niece, Charlotte. Uh, well,
how do you do?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I uh hadn't know that Missus Taylor had someone living
with her and so Carrie. Yeah, Uh, that's Mischie's on
my fans mention something about it today.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I just arrived.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Uh are you from America?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Now I'm from Europe? Tensolenia. Well that's in Romania. Juh,
how did you get to visa? Oh? I got it.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I didn't mean to be nosy. I uh M, you
can see where most things aren't too difficult for you.
Miss Uh your Roman I prefer first names.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Mine is harsh and yours is told me. Yeah, well
that's uh they're close enough. Uh, this sounds better. What
did you want to see my uh countabout Well that's
kind of a long complicated story.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Miss I.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Uh, you're harrish? Is it good to have the cats?
Y won't? Yes? Yeah, be harrish. I'm I I'm got
a level with you.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Y I.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
You know there have been some strange deaths around here.
I know, but you know these little cats were not responsible.
Well if it was a big mouth out of some kind,
we would have flushed him up by now, I know.
Damn well, it couldn't have been the ordinary little cats
and what oh who not who? No human being could
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have mauled anyone the way.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Those kids were torn up.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
So what.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I've I've had an explanation that I can't quite dig
or i'd I I mean, we believe would I believe it?
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Why?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I won't try you.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
All? Look, la, let me talk you. No, you can't
go in there. I've got to now let me go.
You really want me to. And I don't mean to
be ungallant, but uh, you can't be unfeeling. Also, you're
a very attractive man when you're a very tempting woman,
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let me tempt you. Uh, you got me too late.
I'm I'm a good boy. Now you so sure? Kiss me? Oh,
come on, look like a good boy. Thank you very
bad boy. M you're wow.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Oh but what what do you after? Sooner or later?
What I need from everyone? You're immortal? So kiss me again?
Oh no, no, no, look this heirsh yes, but you're not.
You're changing as I look at you. You're now Sarah
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Taylor Carrie was right.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
If you are right, I'm you to eternal hell.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
If I cannot destroy you in one shape, I will
go through all of them to stop you. And all
that lived in our world died for guy. No one
must no my sea cat?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
How was he share it?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I I can't rather they tell you Ms Chising. It
wasn't marked up too bad, but he sure lost a
lot of blood.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
And he got me? I had a show cause order
from the health department. I took her out to Ms.
Taylor's and well when I when I got there, the
door was open. I didn't get no answer. And when
I went in, well that's that's when I found Tony.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Where was missus Taylor?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I don't know. That's one of them cats carried her off.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Hot.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Look man, I got there just the dusk, and I
had a deputy with me, and we we both seen
a big mountain cat when he once said, so I
never seen looking away. Just as we got there, I
set a couple of shots after but I missed.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
But it didn't It wasn't carrying anyone.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Oh no, no, I if it was an animal like
that was there must have been two, and the first
one carried off Ms. Taylor.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
But the one you shot at was Missus Taylor.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Now Ms Chisholm. I listened to dog you said. But
I'm a plain man, and and even at Halloween, I
don't take so good the tricks and superstition.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Okay, you don't believe me.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I I ain't had no college education.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Never mind that you ever possibly going hunting that cat.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Sure I ever caused enough damage?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Can I come along?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Oh no, I didn't know about sad.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Why did you bask? And you know my father was
DJ Chisholm.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
He taught me to shoot and handle a gun since
the day.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I was twelve.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
It's a day of women's liberation.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
And besides, I'm the only one of you who can
carry an.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Old shark's rifle that's spit at a fire it's own, ammo.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
No, but it ain't much of a recommendation.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You better change your mind.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
The bullets in my magazine magus the only thing that'll
bring your black mountain cat down.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
They're hunting me down.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
So then that again, as they have.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Through all recorded history, the bullets were soup through the
air and chunk home in the trees. In other years
that the house before that.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Spot, the Sish seemed funk cause they found the mark
only century of.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
The century the trouble faster, they made more noise. And
even if I haven't hit, what does the matter? I
have nine times and nineteen nine lives.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
To use up, even more than the lesser gods. And
no bullet that is not blessed by Saint Hubert can
touch me. And who in the twentieth century ever heard
of Saint Hubert?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Let alone? Uh? Where wolf a a uh? But someone.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
That was no ordinatebor oh no, no, no, the end
of the end of time, of timeless time.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
And yet I know.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
H I I guess I owe you an apology's chissel.
Why well, you was the one brought that cat down.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
I only fired a gun a board foam la Mark.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
He waimed it but God drove it home a pardon.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
You know, my daddy belonged to a little church way
up in the hills north of here. I don't even
know to this day what denomination it was, but it
was called Saint Hubert's. My daddy always said he was
the patron saint of hunters, and he claimed every bullet
he owned was blessed for the church.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
It was one of those I fired, but I fighted
a black cat.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Good Lord, there wasn't no black cat we hit.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
It was.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
It was a it's a young woman watch or the
the shape is changing it? Why that's that's miss Steeler whatever.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Her real name was.
Speaker 5 (42:30):
Look now, uh, oh man, ain't nothing of that but
the Kayan flesh. Uh even that's gone. Now it's just
a stillaton name and.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
The bones of which are turning to dust. You know, something, Sheriff,
No one will ever believe what we have seen, something
as old as time.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
A werewolf, in all its aspects best to witch is
dead forever.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Isn't that a nice, gruesome little tale for Halloween? I
hope you enjoyed it, or at least we're caught in
its spell. MM If you were have no worries because
I can assure you that, like the witch in the
Wizard of oz Ding Dong, this wicked old witch is dead.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, Pleasants Dreams
Speaker 2 (44:00):
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