A Horror Story

In a New Orleans kitchen, Gaston d'Ornet, an assistant chef, labors for recognition. He stumbles upon a bewitched pair of slippers and an old diary that ignite his ambition and set him on a forbidden path. Gaston's secret: the slippers are made of human skin. In a maddening spiral, he skins himself alive, becoming a ghostly figure who haunts the narrative, forever bound to his ghastly deeds.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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