Original Airdate: Aug 06, 1974

Episode 0128 "The Headstrong Corpse"

Written by George Lowthar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

Lord Berly of Moreland is dead. In life, he feared being buried alive, so he is left to lie in an open crypt until doctors are sure he is dead. While lying in state, somebody steals his body. Murder, mutilation, and corpse snatching take place in this 1874 Gothic whodunit.

Welcome to the wonders of your own imagination, for although I am about to tell you a horror story, it is really your imagination that will bring it to life for you. I shouldn't even say I will tell it, for it's really the story of Edward Somerset, as recounted in his private journal dated London 1874. a truly harrowing account of what took p ...