 Good evening, friend. This is your house to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Another gamble of ghoulish going on. Come in, come in. We're celebrating an anniversary here tonight. Our pet vampires, Oscar and Bertha, have been dead just a hundred years. There's such a devoted couple, with them it was love at first sight. In all their years of unholy wedlock, they've argued only once. Over the training of their backward son, Abner. Oscar blames the little vampire's shyness on Bertha. She kept insisting that Abner was much too young to be taught these facts and tales. There you should see the new home that Oscar just dug for his family. Complete with hot and cold running victims. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Tonight's inner sanctum mystery, Beautiful Voyage, was written by Ed Adamson and Robert Sloan. And stars Arnold Moss in the role of Steve, with Elspeth Eric as Rita. All right, folks. Set for another saga in the Sanguinary. But make yourself comfortable, sit right next to me in this coffin. And don't worry about the price of the seat. There's no cover, Charles. Now let's get to the story as it's told to us by Steve. The fishing boat fondles on the reef. It's wooden sides crying out against the punishment of the lashing waves. And there on the deck of the dying ship, the lone fisherman faces the relentless fury of the element. Doesn't have to be this way. He stands on that rock and looks down at me. She wants me to be a dead man. He was weaned on tackle and he could smell out a school of fish a hundred miles away. He's in good shape, Steve. All right, Johnny. Carlos, how about the supplies? Or start below, Steve. This time I bring extra bottle of wine. Come from Elizabeth. Oh, we're going up the coast of Goldwater before we head out to the banks. See, we'll lose six or seven hours. We'll make it up, Johnny. I'm dropping Reid off at Goldwater. She's going to stay with her sister while we're out. Oh, Steve, you're not doing that. What are you talking about? A woman on boat. It is bad luck. Yeah, but Reid is my wife. Make no difference. It's bad things, Steve, to bring a woman on fishing boat. This I know. You bring much bad luck. Listen to him, will you, Johnny? That's an old fishing superstar. Please, Steve, you hear what I say. Please. It's true. Sure, sure, sure. Like breaking a mirror seven years later. Oh, you make fun, but it is true. Come on, come on. I'm not drinking, Johnny, yet. You can wipe on boats? Sure, I will. You don't think I fall? Then Carlos does not go. Carlos wasn't kidding. Carlos was too good a hand of loose. I quieted him to the cold. I was down in the cabin when Reid came onto us. Never young, alive. That's why I tried so hard to hold on to her. What are you looking at? Just you, Reid. What wrong was it? Wrong, but perfect. Well, I'm just going to take my bag. Come on, the boat to Goldwater. She won't sail with me if you come aboard. He says it's bad luck to have a woman aboard. Now, I know it sounds foolish, but Reid, it isn't that. I don't want you. Why are you alone with that promising business? Well, Reid, it's only because I love you so much. I just want to get you out of this town while I'm away. I know you're young. I know it's no fun waiting weeks while I'm away. I don't blame you for going to those dances. You don't blame me? That's nice of you, real man. What did you expect me to do, sit home and knit? Well, it's just that I don't want you to meet someone else who might go away. Look, Dee, that's how I told you something. I did meet someone. I know, Reid. That's why I asked you to go to your sister's. Don't do any good. I wasn't going to stay in Goldwater anyway. I won't be around when you get back to me. Don't, Reid, you've got to wait for me. You're messing me up. No, no, no. I'm grabbing my stuff. I promise you I'll give up fishing. This will be my last trip. I promise. Only you've got to wait. Wait! I wouldn't wait another two minutes. I always hated you. The first time you put those hands of yours on me. I only married you because I needed somebody to take care of me. Oh, no, no. What are you... You're yawing at me. Talking that way. So I hit her to the floor. I stood over her. I touched her and I spoke to her. But she was... Rita was dead. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. I loved her, but... What could I tell them? They wouldn't believe me. Then I heard the whistling. She does not come with us, Steve. No, Carlos. It's better that way. Good case over there. That's Rita's, isn't it? She forgot it, maybe. I bring her to her right now. Oh, no, no, no. What are you talking about? Wait, wait, wait. She's coming over for me. But she brought some stuff down for me. Some things I forgot. Get the motor started, Johnny. Okay, Skapper. I made my cabin. I didn't sleep. I just sat there for hours. My eyes fixed on a chest. I wanted to open it and look at her again. But I got 10 hours. But things began to happen. The radio shot, Steve. Well, fix it, Johnny. I can't. Power supplies burn out. It's funny thing about that. Just put a new condenser in there before yesterday. A brand new one. It's funny, for no reason. It should burn out. There's never a superstitious man, but the cue is of things like that. And that was only the first. Hey, who's coming? Johnny said I should show it to you. Why? Well, look at it. We are headed north. But the needle points this way. Oh, no. Now, you see? Steve, what are you doing? You break this wire. Get out of here. There was something Carlos didn't know. A woman can curse her shit. She's dead. Rita's body was in that chest. Why? Is it any of your business? Are you only asking, Steve? Well, it's, uh, got some of my old clothes. Gonna dump them overboard. Let me see what you have in the bag, Steve. I told you, I only got... Don't give me old things before you throw it away. You remember? No, you don't let me see. I told you there's nothing in here for you. Nothing that's any good. Now, do you get that? It comes from that bag. Carlos went up to the deck house where Johnny was at the whip. Well, why? There's someone in the water. What? They're going out in the lifeboat together. Her? Yes, Steve. It's a woman. Well, get Carlos. Call him back. But the thing like that... I said we're getting out of here. No, no, no, Steve. She isn't. Come on over to the side. You can see her swimming out there in the water. Ah, it's only the moonlight. It's just the way things look in the moonlight. There's tricks on your eyes, Johnny. Steve, I saw her. She's alive. It ends to my ears to shut out the terrible sound. But it's struck through my fingers like a... You get sick, Mr. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a woman. Ah, she's here. What that means, Carlos? You told me yourself it's bad luck. I know, but this... We've got a third. We've got to let the woman down. John, I know you're dead. Well, can Johnny save me? Well, you don't look the same, but that's a trick to fool them. I... I'm playing classroom to the ocean. Because they don't know. You can trick them. Steve, you're sick. I know why you come back from the dead. You want to see me destroyed. You can't fool me because I know who you... I went up on deck. The superstition was being fulfilled right in front of my eyes. The black cloud above the mass spread itself out into a giant blanket, snuffing out the light of the moon and its stars. Cold wind gave me hope. It was too late. I went forward to the deck house. Well, I understand, Steve. What did you try to say? That woman, Carlos, she's cursing this boat. Look how it's blowing up. Hey, yes, Steve. Big storm coming. Well, she's doing it. It's because she's on this boat. We'll all be killed. Nothing we can do, Steve. That woman. That woman, she's not who you think. I'm bored before we left court. I killed her. It's a trick. The dead will return. There's one sure thing I know about her. That dress she's wearing. I gave it to her. I gave the woman that dress. Why? She was wet. I looked in your closet in cavern for something for her to wear. I find the dress and read the suitcase. Why? In the suitcase you say, Rita, bring your things. I see the blood fall on death from that dress. You never said anything. She was bad woman, Steve. No good. She's coming. No, Steve. Don't want to die. This bad thing to kill. I can't do nothing. The woman. Either to loosen. I must sever it. She's hurt, too. I must get her in the lifeboat. Here's something for all of you folks with troubles and spouses. A wanted-down theme song composed by the free broadcasting system.