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A Bride for Death

A poet from a small town becomes fascinated with an old Victorian home that looks frozen in the past. He encounters Julia, a woman who acts like she's still living in the 1920s while she waits for her lost boyfriend to come back. The more time he spends with her, the deeper he gets pulled into her strange world, until her boyfriend shows up and a deadly fight breaks out.

A poet encounters a Victorian house where a young woman named Julia lives in 1920s-era clothing. She believes her fiancé is missing from World War I and seeks news of him. The poet's family dismisses his accounts as dreams, noting the actual house is deteriorated and inhabited by a recluse. Despite their skepticism, the poet continues visiting Julia until her fiancé reappears, displaying unexpected jealousy.

A young poet in a small town is captivated by a Victorian house that seems to be untouched by time. He meets Julia, a woman who lives as if it’s the 1920s, waiting for her missing fiancé. As he visits her, he becomes enmeshed in her world, until her fiancé returns and a violent confrontation ensues.

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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“A Bride for Death.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, December 4, 1974.

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