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A lab experiment goes wrong and a scientist ends up with radiation poisoning. Realizing he will soon die, he goes on a robbing spree to collect money for his soon to be widowed wife. However, after killing his first victim, he becomes obsessed of being "the burning man," and begins to terrorize the city.…

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Nursery Rhyme

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77+ y ago

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The House That Death Buillt

84+ y ago

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A lunatic ex-executioner is believed dead and Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane are stranded in his house where a fortune is supposedly hidden but which is also filled with death traps and murder.

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The Mark of the Black Widow

85y ago

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The Oracle of Death

85y ago

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A man who was accidentally hit by Shrevie’s cab appears to be a bit out of joint with time, as he seems to think it is a day later than it actually is and tells of crimes he says he read about which end up happening later. Lamont is more inclined to believe that he knows of them because he is in on them rather than possession of any psychic abiliti…

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The Isle of the Living Dead

85y ago

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Ghost Town

85+ y ago

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Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane visit the ghost town of Bad Creek. They're the only guest in the hotel. Well, except for the old owner and the spooky spirits who are protecting a nearby gold mine.

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The The Laughing Corpse

85+ y ago

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Two scientists are killed by a poison that induces laughter before death. The Shadow must solve who is behind the demented revenge plot and how is the poison being administered.

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The Return of Carnation Charlie

85+ y ago

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A gangster on death row who is known for wearing his lucky carnation, asks for the favor of wearing one as he’s marched to the death house. He claims the flower has always brought him luck, and was only without one on the day he was arrested, then on the day he was sentenced. What does he hope for in wearing it now?…

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Murder in the Death House

85+ y ago

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Margot Lane joins the Citizens Committee to help clean up crooked politics, but during one of their soapbox speeches an execution is occurring at the local penitentiary, however, the executioner is electrocuted instead of the convict due to a rewired chair.

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The Stockings Were Hung

85+ y ago

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Looking in on the Grover family, we find they are a family in need. Margot, and Lamont learn from the newsboy about the business loss, and the single father who is doing his best to provide for his family. Lamont goes his own way to pick up some last moment gifts, hiring a cab to act as his Santa’s sleigh.…

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Murder Incorporated

85+ y ago

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A gang kills for hire...using deadly matches.

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Death Shows the Way

85+ y ago

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A good story about the missing "Harvey Diamond," a phony Count, Lamont Cranston poisoned to death and a weird surprise ending.

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The Inventor of Death

85+ y ago

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Lamont and Margo investigate a mad scientist who uses a rival scientist’s mechanical robot to take revenge on those who turned down his invention. Commentary on the origin of the word robot, how this episode and other works of art accurately depicted what our technical future would be. We also take a look at Fritz Lang's Metropolis.…

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Phantom Fingerprints

86y ago

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A veteran medical examiner is found murdered in Commissioner Weston's office. Fingerprints of a knife thrower, who was executed eight years earlier, are found in the room and on the dead body. When the killer strikes again, the same fingerprints are found at the scene. Curious of how a dead man can leave fresh fingerprints at a crime scene, The Sha…

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The House of Fun

86y ago

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A carnival concession is a front for a kidnap ring and stock manipulation gang.

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Dead Men Talk

86+ y ago

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A racket king disappears and is thought dead. His business partner is suspected by Lamont Cranston who investigates a funeral home as The Shadow.

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Can the Dead Talk

86+ y ago

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Lamont Cranston dies so that The Shadow can go undercover to battle a super-villain who has discovered his secret identity.

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Appointment with Death

86+ y ago

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A vicious convict is released from jail and goes after the man who put him behind bars -- The Shadow.

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Horror in Wax

86+ y ago

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A woman is reported murdered, but the only clue and the body itself seems to be a statue made of wax.

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The Friend of Darkness

86+ y ago

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A blind man, with a highly developed sense of touch, is forced to be a safe cracker for a gang of bank robbers, or else they'll shoot his seeing-eye dog.

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The Hypnotic Death

86+ y ago

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The evil Dr. Dharma uses his "telepathic hypnosis" to cause a series of suicides to profit from the victim's insurance. Lamont Cranston becomes his next victim.

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Prelude to Terror

86+ y ago

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A mobster plunges the city into darkness by planting explosive light bulbs everywhere.

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The Valley of the Living Dead

86+ y ago

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The Shadow flies to an isolated valley and discovers that the villagers act like zombies due to a mad man who rules over them.

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Ghosts Can Kill

86+ y ago

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A murderous convict is executed, but swears revenge from beyond the grave.

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The Island of the Devil

86+ y ago

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A falsely accused spy thinks of nothing but revenge for twenty years while sitting in jail, but the man who will pardon him is murdered before he can reach the prison.

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The The Man Who Murdered Time

86+ y ago

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A mad scientist, who is dying from an incurable heart disease, builds a time machine. He then relives December 31 over and over again so that he can repeatedly kill his cousin who has wronged him. Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane are the only two conscious enough to realize the repetition of New Year's Eve, and together they successfully change the …

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Guest of Death

86+ y ago

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A man with a special visitor pass to a prison takes a tour of the "Death House." The deranged guard forces the guest to sit in the electric chair, then straps him down and gives him the ultimate thrill.

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Murder in E-flat

86+ y ago

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A mad musician threatens the city with his, "Symphony of Silence in E-flat" in which hidden bombs explode at a loud noise.

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Death is Blind

86+ y ago

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A doctor experimenting with chemicals in his lab accidentally blinds his assistant. The directors who own the lab threaten to fire the doctor because of the incident. The doctor takes revenge by shooting them with a rifle, hoping people will think they were all suicides.

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The Black Rock

86+ y ago

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An embezzler and his gang hides out on a secluded island off the coast of Nova Scotia and The Shadow goes after them.

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Shyster Payoff

87y ago

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A criminal lawyer clears his clients only to force them into a series of robberies.

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Gun Island

87y ago

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Pirate's sink their boat on purpose in order to fool another ship to "rescue" them. The ruse works and once aboard the new ship, the head pirate promptly shoots the captain and Lamont Cranston's friend, Sir John.

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Night Without End

87y ago

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The city is in a panic after being blackmailed by a criminal using a stolen black fog machine. He has plunged the city into darkness, and if five million dollars isn't paid, he threatens to add a poisonous gas to the fog and kill everyone.

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Death Stalks the Shadow

87y ago

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A convict on death row asks to see The Shadow before he goes to the chair. He confesses how his crooked lawyer is planning an insurance scam. The Shadow goes after the attorney, but becomes trapped by an electric photo beam in a death chamber.

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Traffic in Death

87y ago

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Sanitarium patients are mysteriously dying and being drained of their blood. Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane are summoned by the head doctor and arrive to find him murdered. The lab assistant accuses the duo of the doctor's death, but it is he who is draining the blood from the dead patients to sell it back to the hospital's blood bank.…

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Caverns of Death

87y ago

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During a cave tour, several students fall down a pit when the rail gives way. When a rescue team goes down, they find no bodies. The Shadow and Margot Lane investigate and discover a secret ruby mine deep below the caverns where the students have been kidnapped and are being used as slave labor.

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Death Under the Chapel

87y ago

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After a professor is fired dishonorably from the faculty, he seeks revenge by planning to set off a bomb at the chapel during graduation day.

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The Tomb of Terror

87y ago

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A mummy's curse seems valid when a strange death ray kills those who enter a Egyptian exhibit at a museum.

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Murder on Approval

87y ago

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Enemies of the United States have developed a germ that could wipe out the entire army, eventually leaving the U.S. open to invasion. It is first tested out at a barracks near New York. The Shadow must hurry and find out who is behind it and if a cure is available.

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Message from the Hills

87y ago

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The Shadow foils a plot to rob a diamond mine.

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Murders in Wax 23:14

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A killer in prison manages to enact his revenge on those who sent him up by placing their dead bodies in a wax museum.

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Aboard the Steamship Amazon 28:04

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Unknown to the passengers, munitions for a band of revolutionaries are being smuggled on the luxury steamship "Amazon." When the conspirators find out that their plans might be thwarted, they plan to blow up the ship, killing those on board.