A Coffin For The Devil
A professor and a young couple try to determine what really happened 100 years ago when a stranger ordered from a mortician a coffin of unusual design for himself. With an inside lock and hinges, the coffin also had enough room for its occupant to move arms. The stranger carried it to a cemetery, apparently walking with it through the gates.
William Spindles and his fiancée Lucy find an old letter that tells the tale of William's great-great-grandfather, who worked as an undertaker. The story describes a mysterious stranger who came to pick up a coffin that looked like a music box. After the stranger disappeared into a tomb, the undertaker was discovered knocked out next to the empty coffin, unable to explain what happened.
William Spindles, with his fiancée Lucy, reads an old letter that brings to life the story of his great-great-grandfather, an undertaker, and a stranger who comes to claim a coffin that resembles a musical case. When the stranger vanishes into a crypt, the undertaker, found unconscious beside the empty coffin, can offer no explanation.
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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