Nightmare

Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills · Apr 4, 2026 · 1h

Originally Aired: March 13, 1948

In Suspense #288, "Nightmare," Vince awakens from a terrifying dream, but the nightmare refuses to release him to the morning. He vividly recalls a white-masked woman's face turning evil, a struggle with a shadowy figure, and killing a man whose body he locked in a closet with a clover-shaped key. As he dismisses it as nothing more than a bad dream - perhaps caused by that late-night salami - he discovers disturbing physical evidence that shatters his sense of reality. Fresh bruises circle his throat, a deep scratch mars his wrist, and most chilling of all, he…