This episodes was done very well, even if the surgery takes up most of the plot. Good story with a dark ending, too.

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[July 25, 1947 Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer – Radio editor Robert S. Stephan reviews a lost Wyllis Cooper episode]

LIGHTS OUT is the kind of dramatic series the American living room could easily do without. It deals in horrible stuff. This week’s “sketch” (WJW, Wednesdays) concerned the doings of vampires (the living dead). These are the folk who are supposed to go about at night feeding on their victim’s blood until someone is fortunate enough to drive iron stakes through their hearts.

Most vampire tales follow a pattern. There is the innocent victim, the relentless chase, the final blackout of the vampire. In this tale, a young wife (played as I caught the credits by Lurene Tuttle, an actress who has the ability for much better roles) is being bled to death by one Mellodoff. The play reveals he’s a fellow whose attentions once proved unwelcome to the heroine. He’s been killed in a traffic accident.

The action is based on the efforts of the young husband and a physician to thwart Mellodoff. They’re unsuccessful. The wife dies to become a vampire herself. Then the husband visits the wife’s vault, drives a stake through her heart and then shoots himself to death. What happens to Mellodoff I’ll probably never know. What possible entertainment value for the average family circle can be found in such morbid material?
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[July 30, 1947 Dallas Morning News previews Cooper’s “The Ring” — with spoilers.]

… Boris Karloff, the only living human who could scare the wind out of a ghost, will be involved in a ghastly drama about a gold ring disappearing from the hand of a beautiful lady . . . and the lady’s hand vanishes also. The ring is discovered later in the eye of a dead man, who has fantastically escaped from the grave to be found lying on a cold slab in the morgue. …