Summer Night

Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills · Apr 13, 2026 · 30m

Originally Aired: July 15, 1948

Suspense #298, "Summer Night," Anna Macaulay makes a desperate phone call to her old friend Helen after years of self-imposed isolation. For nearly four years since her father's death, Anna has lived as the town's recluse in a gloomy house with locked windows and doors, shutting out the world and earning a reputation as the town's "queer one." But tonight is different—Anna urgently needs Helen to come to her house immediately, insisting it's a matter of life and death.

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