Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, a.k.a. The Man in Black. These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Speaking Clock" by John Dickson Carr; "The Clock Strikes Eight" by John Dickson Carr; and "And The Deep Shuddered" by Monckton Hoffe. Among the cast are Marjorie Westbury, Marius Goring, and Gladys Spencer.