Radio Mystery Theater The Hand 0080

Original Airdate: April 24, 1974

Episode 0080 "The Hand"

Original Story by Guy de Maupassant Adapted by Ian Martin

Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallWelcome to the world of eerie imagination. The fear you can hear. Vendetta the very word itself invokes dread and strikes a mood of brooding terror But to live on the island of Corsica home of the vendetta is to be steeped in the tradition of violent massacres and the fatalistic expectation If ferocious vengeance as a way of life. At least it would have been so just a hundred years ago when these famous words were first written.

At the time of the bizarre and terrifying affair of The Hand, Ari Donne, was a police magistratein Ayacho, a charming little white city nestled on the edge of a beautiful gulf shut in by lofty mountains. Most of the cases he had to investigate or prosecute there were cases of vendetta, but these were Corsican against Corsican. This affair of the hand was alien against what? Something far more alien. Perhaps supernatural. That was not until later, of course. For now, the only alien presence was a neighbor of Henri's, a Sir John Rowell, lately come to the island to settle down, and an object of great speculation among the native population.

Starring: Guy Sorrell, Mildred Clinton, Alexander Scourby, Ian Martin