Flame Of Death by Inner Sanctum Mysteries

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, we’ll hear Flame Of Death from Inner Sanctum Mysteries. This story was originally broadcast February 21, 1949. Listen to more from Inner Sanctum Mysteries https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales828.mp3 Download StrangeTales828 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for more information. Thank [...]

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
1:06.3	Music Welcome back to Strange Tales, Weird Stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relicradio.com.
1:12.8	Our story comes from Inner Sanctum Mysteries this week, series that debuted on January 7th of 1941,
1:18.7	and aired until October 5th of 1952, 526 episodes.
1:24.1	The one we'll hear today aired over CBS stations on February 21st, 1949.
1:26.9	It's titled Flame of Death.
1:48.7	Good evening, friend.
1:54.9	This is your host to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sand.
1:58.7	Come in, come in, we've been having labour trouble. Our pet vampire, Oscar, a member of local Ooooo,
2:04.5	has been complaining about unfair haunting conditions.
2:08.7	He wants longer nights and fatter victims.
2:12.6	And then there's also a jurisdictional dispute going on between Oscar and Harry, the demon hangman.
2:19.3	Oscar says that Harry should keep his news out of other people's business.
2:24.6	Oh, by the way, let me tell you about our latest guest.
2:27.8	Used to be an income tax consultant.
2:30.8	One day, he deducted his wife's head from her body with a hatchet.
2:36.5	Sort of a decapita gained act?
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