Comments on: Episode 71: Dark Journey https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/ Sophisticated Scares Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:07:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Judy Mohr https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/#comment-9538 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 06:02:31 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=1029#comment-9538 In reply to David D.

I can’t understand how and why he murdered the woman whom bore him 3 children. Why did he wait so long.

]]> By: David D https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/#comment-9132 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:03:14 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=1029#comment-9132 A regrettable and forgettable examination of narcissistic attachment. This ridiculous story and tritely stereotypical representation of both men and women was an unflattering example of the creative female psyche. The weak plot and misanthropic characterization was topped only by how unlistenable thirty minutes of screeching hysteria can be. I liked the hitch-hiker but I’ll never get my time back for listening to this. To me Lucille Fletcher is now a stageplay writer to specifically avoid.

]]> By: David Feldmann https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/#comment-7836 Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:48:26 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=1029#comment-7836 Classic episode! Another great Lucille Fletcher episode I’d recommend is “Fugue In C Minor,” with Vincent Price. Very different, stylistically, but just as fun to hear.

]]> By: Jamie B. https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/#comment-7704 Sat, 21 Apr 2018 23:18:23 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=1029#comment-7704 In reply to Joshua English Scrimshaw.

Mind control or not, how terrible must those Riverdale police be? Clyde would have been the first and most obvious suspect in his mother’s murder, and murder by hammer? That has got to be messy. Even without modern-day forensic techniques, you’d think the local detectives would put some of that puzzle together.

]]> By: Joshua English Scrimshaw https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/#comment-7669 Mon, 05 Mar 2018 02:21:00 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=1029#comment-7669 In reply to Doug Shaw.

Your interpretation makes sense and there’s nothing in the story to contradict it. I think my experience with Suspense affected my reading of the story. It’s very rare for the show to delve into the supernatural and when it does it’s usually fairly explicit about it, even if the supernatural element is only vaguely explained (“House In Cypress Canyon”, “Ghost Hunt”, “The Hitchhiker”, to name a few). The fact that the mind-control was described by an unreliable character and denied by a reliable one also made me believe that it was a red herring. It worked as a red herring though because Suspense has strayed into the supernatural just enough to make me believe it could be where the story was going, but when it offered up an alternative to mind-control, I grabbed onto it because that’s the norm for Suspense.

Now thanks to you I question everything.

]]> By: Doug Shaw https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/#comment-7659 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:56:44 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=1029#comment-7659 I understood the ending completely differently than the four of you did! I’m going to have to listen again! I thought Anne COULD mind-control people. When she was outside of Clyde’s home, the mother was there. She did her magic mind control and the mother died and Clyde loved her again. MAGIC! The twists were three:

1) She’d been mind-controlling him all along. She mind-controlled him to give her his fraternity pin, and all that. When he went to New York he was away from her mental control, and came to his senses, and didn’t love her any more.

2) The way that the mother died. Clyde killed her. He was mind-controlled to do it. So the Reveal was not only did Anne get the mother out of the way, but that she made Clyde kill his mother.

3) Clyde could be mentally controlled, but that didn’t mean he liked being dominated. He snapped and killed Anne, ironically (don’t you think?) the very way he was made to kill his own mother.

I’m not insisting I’m right; but I was surprised that the four of you saw it differently.

My favorite line of the show: “And this year our wife is… MINE! Shannon!”

]]> By: Christian Neuhaus https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2018/02/14/episode-71-dark-journey/#comment-7632 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 04:14:03 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=1029#comment-7632 Regarding the old radio programs of female detectives that Eric’s been listening to (38:55), I recently heard the last half of an episode of an anthology series that was new for me: Murder Clinic. The episode I heard, “A Scrap of Lace,” featured a female sleuth I hadn’t heard of and it piqued my interest. Madame Storey had more of a refined approach than hard-boiled. She’s not a character developed for radio: she originated in short stories from the 1920s.
https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/crime/murder-clinic/murder-clinic-42-09-22-10-the-scrap-of-lace
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8758872-madame-storey-private-investigator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulbert_Footner#Career_as_Author_of_Detective-Adventure_Stories

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