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Thanks for listening. Come in. Welcome. Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall. Welcome to the sound of suspense, the fear you can hear.

For the next 52 minutes, we're going to take you into the world of mystery,

into the world of terrifying imagination.

The story you are going to hear concerns a question which has been asked

since the first men on earth were born and died. Is there a life

after death? Is there a way to return from the grave? And if there is, can we come back in the

body of a living creature? Even one that has claws instead of fingernails?

Here is one chilling answer.

Dr. Singh, you have to tell me, could my wife have come back as a bird, a sparrow, something

like that?

Well, your wife was a rather big woman, Mr. Morrisby, and a physicist...

How about a snake? A seagull? How about a cat? A great, big fat cat. A cat.

Our mystery drama, The Return of the Moorsby's, was written especially for the radio mystery theater by Henry Slesser and stars Patrick O'Neill. I'll be back shortly with Act 1.

Now here is Act 1.

Like all murder stories, sooner or later, it reaches the office of a daily newspaper.

You wanted to see me, Chief?

You bet I want to see you, Prouty. Come in and shut that door.

I bet I know what it's about. That story I filed on Richard Moresby, right?

I got a flash for you, Prouty. This is a newspaper office, not a fiction magazine.

You take this story of yours and see if you can sell it to a weirdo digest or something.

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