Radio Mystery Theater The Creature From the Swamp 0053

Original Airdate: March 07, 1974

Episode 0053 "The Creature From the Swamp"

Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

Just mention the word swamp and cold settles in the bones. The dampness runs through the veins like slime. The thoughts of the brooding, cloying, miasma lingers in the nostrils. Headed, decaying, conjuring in the mind visions of things that slide and slip and slither in the night.

A young game and fish warden named Larry Drake who for reasons of his own lived an isolated hermit's life in the heart of the great swamp, was returning after dark in a wild thunderstorm to his lonely cabin. Just as he approached the cup -shaped body of quicksand and swamp water called... But since this is his story, and he left a painfully careful and detailed record, why not let him tell it for himself?

Starring: Jack Grimes, Joan Lorring, Ian Martin, Robert Dryden, Leon Janny