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[Jan. 21st, 2007|12:32 pm] |
 
 I would have sworn I had scads and oodles of different versions of this delightful tale, but I found only three. In lieu of the continued absence of the BBC tale The Hex, I decided to go ahead and post them.
If you've seen Night Of The Demon or Curse Of The Demon (one great movie with two titles), you've seen a decent retelling of this tale by M. R. James. One of our adaptations is from the series Escape, one from a curious collection of classic horror tales with a wrap-around story called, not surprisingly, Classics Of Horror, and the third was brought to my attention by Astronaut Walt - it's the CBS Radio Mystery Theater version, and in true CBSRMT fashion, the characters' names are different, the story differs a bit and the title was changed as well ("This Will Kill You").
Dr. Karswell is an egotistical, vindictive man. When he's displeased, he curses the person who's displeased him, casting the runes upon them, and they're found torn to bits. When Mr. Dunning writes a review lambasting his book on witchcraft, Dunning discovers what it's like to be on the receiving end of Karswell's ire...
Listen to Escape - Casting The Runes
(5.95 mb; 26:00 min.)
Listen to Classics Of Horror - Casting The Runes
(6.67 mb; 29:05 min.) Listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater - This Will Kill You
(9.06 mb; 39:37 min.) By the way, if anyone has the complete Classics Of Horror series and would like to donate it for mass redistribution, I'd be very grateful.
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