A Living Corpse
Description
Dr. Craig Nugent studies the secrets of death and life, but gets pulled into the dark world of Professor Amadeus Valdemar, a master hypnotist, as science battles against supernatural forces in their final showdown.
The final conflict between science and the supernatural is dramatized in the story of Dr. Craig Nugent, who, while investigating the mysteries of death and life, becomes embroiled in the shadowy world of Professor Amadeus Valdemar, a master of mesmerism.
Professor Amadeus Valdemar, an unscrupulous hypnotist who is dying of consumption, learns that his wife is having an affair and makes a deal with her lover, Dr. Craig Nugent. He promises to give the young doctor his secret theory on mind control if Nugent, in return, puts him in a trance just before he dies. What Nugent doesn’t realize is that Valdemar’s real purpose is the ultimate destruction of his wife.
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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