The Tomb of Terror, 8-28-1938

Again, this has the rather over-long musical opening. The sponsor is still Goodrich Safety Silvertown tires.

There's a meeting in the city museum, with the speaker talking about an Egyptian tomb that has been brought there.

The director of the expedition talks and talks about a curse of the mummy (just like King Tut's “curse”). He and another guy go to check the interior of the tomb. They lift the lid of the mummy case to look at the Egyptian mummy. He talks about the curse, and then he and the guys notice that the mummy's eyes appear to be glowing.

They close the case and move to leave the room. The director becomes ill, and then another guy becomes ill. The third men in the room talks about the glowing eyes.

All three of the men die. The newspapers are more than happy to run the story.

Lamont and Margo are eating at a lunch-wagon (an old term for a diner.) Their deaths were listed as natural by the doctor. Lamont has some questions about the nature of their deaths, and Margo says she will look into the medical records.

Their blood was missing leukocytes, however.

The scene then moves back to some guys trying to figure out whether or not to open the exhibit to the public, and then they hear the voice of the Shadow. He tells them that no one should go into the tomb. He says the guys were murdered. One guy refuses to go along with this, and says he is going into the tomb right then.

The guy opens the mummy case and narrates as he looks at the mummy, and another guy joins him. Stephenson, the guy who looked at the mummy, dies. They hear the Shadow again, and again he tells them a killer is involved, not a curse.

Lamont is suspicious of one of the guys at the tomb, a guy named Kent. He wants Margo to find interview him. The guy had worked for a biologist in the past. The Shadow goes to talk to the scientist Kent had worked for. The scientist says that Kent was moody and wanted more recognition, and also tells the Shadow about the experiments that Kent was involved with.

One of the experiments was a ray that could destroy white corpuscles in an animal, and also a human.

Lamont tells Margo that the “machine of death” is hidden in the tomb somewhere. They go to the museum. They see a guy approaching the tomb and the guy enters the tomb.

The watchman is talking to the mummy, and says one more is to die. The watchman hears a voice, supposedly from the mummy. The voice says the watchman is to tell how he went about killing the men. He says Kent was behind the killing, wanting vengeance against the museum since he's not getting the glory he thinks he should.

The watchman says he helped Kent kill the men. The ray generator is hidden with the mummy. There's a switch in the wall that is thrown, which activates the device. The watchman lifts the mummy's lid and looks at it, and he dies.

The Shadow calls Margo on the radio. He tells her to arrange for a public opening of the tomb. Hawkins is told to open the mummy's case. Then they hear the voice of the Shadow.

He talks about the switch which a guy finds and switches on. Then the Shadow tells Kent to continue his performance and look at the mummy, and Kent refuses. Kent confesses, screams and dies. The Shadow tells everyone that he had already removed the ray, and that Kent had died of fear.

(There is little sense in the way the men died. Even if the ray could destroy white corpuscles, there is no way that death would be instantaneous. The men were said to have died from various diseases.


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