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Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.

Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.

Welcome back to Strange Tales back this Sunday with another weird story from the Golden Age of Radio.

This time it comes from Inner Sanctum Mysteries, a series that debuted in January of 1941, and aired until October of 52.

The long-running series, 526 episodes produced. Our story today is from January 15, 1946. It's titled The Edge of Death. The End of Death. Thank you. Let's Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup present Inner Sanctum Mystery. Good evening, friends of the inner sanctan.

Here's your host at the creaking door.

Through these portals past the world's most horrified people.

Oh, what's the matter?

Did my happy medium start to you?

Sorry, I keep him around to get in the right spirit, you know.

Oh, by the way, if you feel a cold, thin sliver of steel across your neck in the next half hour,

sit perfectly still.

Someone's got an edge on you.

Gracious, Mr. Host, I'm afraid I'd have to move fast.

Oh, Mary, you must sit still. You wouldn't want to lose your head. Well, I'll remember your advice, Mr. Host, I'm afraid I'd have to move fast. Oh, Mary, you must sit still. You wouldn't want to lose your head.

Well, I'll remember your advice, Mr. Host. But right now, I have some advice for our Lipton listeners.

You know, a teapot can't talk. But if it could, I think it would tell you the same thing that I do about making tea.

I think it would probably say, the most delicious tea is the tea

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