The Terrifying Gift
Description
Martha Herriot, entering a fortuneteller’s parlor on a lark, is greeted by the owner as her long-lost granddaughter. After telling a nonplused Martha she now will have the ability to tell the future the old woman abruptly dies. Martha finds her new power so terrifying she threatens to kill herself to get rid of the rare talent.
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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