Dark Fantasy - "The Sleeping Death" (1942)
Published: October 12, 2026
Duration: 16:41
Dark Fantasy, “The Sleeping Death” (episode 30), originally broadcast June 12, 1942, on the NBC Red Network. Written by Scott Bishop, the pseudonym of George M. Hamaker, this story reworks an earlier Tales of the Witch-Queen installment, “The Deathmaker of Shillingham Road.”
Troubled by a mysterious worsening condition in his leg, Paul Wentworth is taken to Fairchild Sanitarium, an isolated island hospital believed to have been closed for a decade. As a doctor urges immediate treatment and former colleague Linda Young arrives at the institution, Wentworth begins to sense disturbing connections to a scandal from his past. Only the first half of this...
Troubled by a mysterious worsening condition in his leg, Paul Wentworth is taken to Fairchild Sanitarium, an isolated island hospital believed to have been closed for a decade. As a doctor urges immediate treatment and former colleague Linda Young arrives at the institution, Wentworth begins to sense disturbing connections to a scandal from his past. Only the first half of this...