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Podcast: Mystery x Suspense
Episode: Escape || Casting the Runes | Back for Christmas || 1947
Description: Escape || (015) Casting the Runes | (020) Back for Christmas || November 19, 1947; December 24, 1947 | NOTE: Last minute change, removed '(016) The Country of the Blind'| 01:50 -- Casting the Runes -- a short story written by the English writer M. R. James. It was first published in 1911 as the fourth story in More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, which was James' second collection of ghost stories.| 31:38 -- Back for Christmas -- A botany professor digging a "Devil's Garden" in the basement, decides to kill his wife and bury her in it. A university lecture is down in his cellar diggi...