The Headstrong Corpse

When Lord Berly of Moreland dies, his doctors place his body in an open tomb because he was terrified of being buried while still alive. But when his corpse disappears without explanation, killing and chaos take center stage in this dark mystery story from 1874.

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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