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The Sealed Book presents “Out of the Past,” originally broadcast on May 13, 1945, as episode 9. Hosted by Philip Clarke, this Mutual Broadcasting System mystery-and-terror anthology installment was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

A wealthy woman’s seemingly secure marriage is threatened when blackmail demands revive a scandal she believed was safely buried. As the pressure mounts and the blackmailer remains unknown, fear and suspicion begin to penetrate her polished domestic life. The story was adapted from an earlier 1944 The Mysterious Traveler script by Arthur and Kogan.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
30:39 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Till Death Do Us Part,” originally broadcast July 8, 1945. Episode 17 of the Mutual Broadcasting System horror-and-mystery anthology is hosted by Philip Clarke and was written by Robert Arthur Jr. and David Kogan.

A financially troubled husband longs to escape a possessive marriage and make a fresh start—but leaving the past behind proves far more frightening than he imagined. This tense supernatural suspense story was reworked from an earlier The Mysterious Traveler episode of the same title.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:36 Original Broadcast
30:30 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Ill Die Laughing,” originally broadcast May 24, 1945, as episode 11. Hosted by Phillip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this mystery-horror tale was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and aired on Mutual/WOR syndication.

In a grand Knob Hill home, wealthy industrialist John Dayton acquires an old prospector’s map leading to a lost cavern rumored to contain Aztec treasure—and an ancient curse. Joined by his wife Laura and adviser Harvey, Dayton sets out on an expedition where greed, dangerous secrets, and a forbidding underground passage make the search for riches increasingly perilous.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
30:41 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Welcome Home,” originally broadcast on May 20, 1945. Episode 10 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s supernatural anthology is hosted by Phillip Clarke and was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, with Jock MacGregor directing.

Leonard and his wife Florence return to Pirate’s Rest, the decaying family mansion of his Louisiana bayou childhood, intending to settle the old property. But Aunt Emily insists Leonard has no claim—because, to her, he is already dead. Gothic resentments and an unsettling family history await within the shadowed old house.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:36 Original Broadcast
30:31 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “My Beloved Must Die,” episode 19, originally broadcast July 22, 1945. Hosted by Phillip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this 30-minute mystery-terror tale was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Millie Sanders is drawn to the handsome but troubling Victor Duval, despite warnings from her sister Joan and her fiancé, Frank. When Duval’s attention shifts toward Joan, a sinister romantic melodrama takes an increasingly supernatural turn. The story was adapted from an earlier 1944 episode of The Mysterious Traveler.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:45 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Murder Must Be Paid For,” episode 21, originally broadcast August 5, 1945. This mystery-and-terror anthology installment was written by Robert Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Lucy Holden is determined to marry Tom Barrow despite Judge Wallace’s unsettling warning about the death of her father. At Barrow House, high above the Pacific, intercepted letters, questions of inheritance, and a newly discovered half-sister deepen the atmosphere of danger and suspicion.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
30:56 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Queen of the Cats,” originally broadcast on June 24, 1945. In episode 15 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s supernatural anthology, host Philip Clarke opens a tale adapted from an earlier 1944 episode of The Mysterious Traveler, written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan.

A badly shaken Chris Arnold recounts the troubled marriage that began with Rhana Farouk, a beautiful woman whose unnerving attachment to cats becomes impossible to ignore. With his fiancée Jane Elliott and a concerned doctor listening, Chris revisits a past shadowed by possessiveness, fear, and watchful feline presences.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
30:29 Closing

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The Sealed Book, “The Accusing Corpse,” originally broadcast April 29, 1945, is Program #7 of the Mutual Broadcasting System mystery anthology. Hosted by Philip Clarke, the episode was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan and reworks their earlier 1944 The Mysterious Traveler story.

At wealthy stockbroker Philip Drake’s country home, his wife Vivian prepares to leave after only three months of marriage. When her brother Roger is drawn into the escalating domestic conflict, private motives, uncertain evidence, and a corpse turn the situation into a tense murder mystery.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:38 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Death Rings Down the Curtain,” episode 16, originally broadcast on Mutual on July 1, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke, this supernatural mystery was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Wealthy invalid Martha Richards summons her nephew Gerald and her actress niece Millie to her darkened home as decisions about her fortune loom. When Martha’s attorney arrives with estate business to settle, uneasy questions of inheritance, identity, and performance turn the household into a chilling contest of nerves.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
30:32 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “To Have and to Hold,” episode 22, originally broadcast on August 12, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this Mutual Broadcasting System/WOR mystery was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

College student Jane Bradley arrives unexpectedly at the isolated Bradley Estate in New England, where her Aunt Olivia and unseen Uncle Christopher have lived apart from the world for decades. A taxi driver’s troubling observations, a dimly lit mansion, and Olivia’s account of an old romance draw Jane into a gothic tale of devotion, secrecy, and unease.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:42 Closing

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The Sealed Book, “Stranger in the House,” originally broadcast May 6, 1945, is episode 8 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s supernatural mystery series. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, the story was written by Robert Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Jane and Roger Barton move into isolated Wickford Manor despite Jane’s unease about the old house. As Roger becomes increasingly fascinated by an unseen presence, Jane searches for answers in the manor’s troubling past. A tense haunted-house tale set amid shadowed rooms, dying embers, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:35 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Beware of Tomorrow,” originally broadcast July 29, 1945, as episode 20. Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor for the Mutual Broadcasting System, this robot-themed science-fiction chiller was adapted from an earlier 1944 broadcast of the same script on The Mysterious Traveler.

Dr. Richard Dale answers a troubling summons from his former mentor, Professor Clark, at an isolated New England mansion. With a wary sheriff and unsettling rumors surrounding Clark’s secret laboratory, Dale encounters strange apparatus, a nervous assistant, and an extraordinary artificial man called Alpha—raising uneasy questions about invention and control.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:42 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Murderer Unknown,” episode 23, originally broadcast August 19, 1945. Phillip Clarke appears as the Keeper of the Book.

A prosperous but unscrupulous businessman, whose dealings have harmed others, begins receiving black-bordered letters threatening his life. As the warnings intensify, wealth and influence offer little comfort in this compact story of menace and reckoning, written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:29 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Broadway Here I Come,” originally broadcast on Mutual on June 17, 1945. This is episode 14 of the supernatural mystery anthology, hosted by Phillip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book.

In a small California cabaret, dancers Kitty Williams and Eddy Davis share dreams of Broadway while Kitty’s wealthy, ailing husband George watches from the sidelines. Written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor, this dark tale explores ambition, loyalty, and the dangerous price of treating a theatrical future as something money can buy.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:36 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “King of the World,” episode 2, originally broadcast on March 25, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this Mutual Broadcasting System mystery-terror tale was written by Robert Arthur, Jr. and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Fleeing criminal Duke Farson finds shelter in a remote professor’s laboratory, where an experimental serum promises protection from death itself. Certain he can turn the discovery into power, Farson takes control of the formula—but the professor’s work holds dangers beyond anything he expects. Adapted from a 1943 episode of The Mysterious Traveler, this is a tense journey into ambition, fear, and the terrible price of seeming invulnerability.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:32 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Design for Death,” originally broadcast on June 3, 1945. Episode 12 of the Mutual Broadcasting System mystery-horror anthology is introduced by recurring narrator Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book.

Fugitives Carl and Dora Evans, posing as brother and sister, flee through the Maine woods toward the Canadian border after their car is wrecked. They find shelter with Mordred Vance, an isolated elderly recluse whose house, hidden money, and ominous organ music make their refuge increasingly uneasy. The story was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan and adapted from their 1944 Mysterious Traveler episode of the same title.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:44 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Devil Island,” episode 4, originally broadcast April 8, 1945. Framed by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this Mutual Broadcasting System mystery-horror drama was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Anne Drake journeys by motorboat to the bleak New England island her family has owned for generations, hoping to meet the father she has never known. But inside the weather-beaten mansion above the cliffs, unsettling incidents and old family fears leave her questioning whether the danger lies in the isolated house—or within the Drake bloodline.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:31 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Death at Storm House,” episode 6, originally broadcast on Mutual on April 22, 1945. Hosted by Phillip Clarke, this supernatural mystery was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

High above the Atlantic, Storm House is an isolated New England mansion haunted by memory, grief, and a promise that may not be easily broken. When John returns to the cliffside home with his new bride, Nora, the house’s shadowed past—and the warning left by his late wife, Lysette—begins to loom over their marriage.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:46 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “You Only Die Once,” originally broadcast on September 9, 1945. Episode 26 was the final installment of the series’ 26-show run on the Mutual Broadcasting System, hosted by Philip Clarke.

Wealthy John Winthrop welcomes Jerry, his wife Vivian’s supposed brother, into their home and business. As private loyalties and financial motives begin to surface, the Winthrops’ comfortable domestic life takes on an ominous edge. The story was adapted from the 1944 Mysterious Traveler episode of the same title.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
30:33 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Death Laughs Last,” originally broadcast on Mutual on September 2, 1945. Program 25 of the 26-episode mystery-and-terror anthology, it is hosted by Philip Clarke and was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan, with Jock MacGregor directing and producing.

A financially desperate locksmith needs money for his wife’s urgent brain operation. When every respectable avenue fails, his skills open the door to a dangerous proposition—and the grim irony that follows. This tale was adapted from a substantially similar 1944 episode of The Mysterious Traveler.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
30:41 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “The Ghost Maker,” episode 13, originally broadcast on Mutual on June 10, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this chilling tale was written by Robert Arthur and David Kogan and adapted from their earlier Mysterious Traveler story, “The Ghost Makers.”

Near the New England village of Wilton, indebted Ned Wainwright turns to Professor Piedmont, an expert in manufactured hauntings, to unsettle his wealthy Aunt Agatha in her old house beside an ancient cemetery. But eerie footsteps, voices, and other carefully arranged terrors may not be enough to shake a woman with a formidable will.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
30:35 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Escape by Death,” originally broadcast on April 15, 1945, as episode 5. Hosted by Phillip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this Mutual Broadcasting System mystery was adapted from the 1944 The Mysterious Traveler story by Robert Arthur Jr. and David Kogan.

In a shabby rural house, elderly sisters Martha and Louise Abbott feel increasingly isolated under the control of younger relatives. As troubling incidents deepen their suspicions, the sisters—one confined to a wheelchair—search for help and contemplate a desperate escape from a danger they cannot fully understand.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:32 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Time on My Hands,” originally broadcast on August 26, 1945. Episode 24 of Mutual Broadcasting System’s horror-mystery anthology is hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book and was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan.

A desperate man discovers an unusual pawn shop whose proprietor offers cash for the one thing he has left to sell: years of his own life. This sinister tale of bargains and mortality was adapted from The Mysterious Traveler.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
30:43 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “The Hands of Death,” originally broadcast March 18, 1945. In the series’ opening episode, host Philip Clarke serves as the Keeper of the Book, introducing a chilling tale adapted from Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan’s earlier Mysterious Traveler story, “The Hands That Killed.”

On a fogbound San Francisco night, reports of the Phantom Strangler unsettle the city as wheelchair-using collector Edward Morlock awaits an unwanted visit from his estranged brother. At Morlock’s Santa Villa home—filled with relics of infamous murders—family tensions and a dangerous obsession gather into a sinister trap.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
30:43 Closing

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The Sealed Book, “Death Spins a Web,” originally broadcast April 1, 1945, is episode 3 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s 26-episode mystery-horror series. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, it was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

In a great mansion far from the city, bedridden heiress Mrs. Olivia Drake summons Blanche, Vivien, and Chris—three prospective heirs eager to learn who will inherit her fortune. As family ambition and rivalry mount, Drake turns the decision into a dark contest of wills with deadly implications.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
30:27 Closing

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