Original Airdate: “The Fatal Marksman”

Episode 0140 of Radio Mystery Theater

Written by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

In this fantasy tale, to win the love of his life, a man agrees to give up his simple clerical job in order to become a hunter-breaking a promise to his dead mother. His dead mother curses his gun so he can't hit anything, but another agreeable spirit gives him enchanted bullets-but they come with a price.

For 75 years, from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th century, was the heyday of the writers of the Gothic story. Here is one of the most popular, which the great composer Von Weber used as the libretto of the opera Der Freischütz. And appropriately enough, it begins in a graveyard. ...