 good evening friends this is your host to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum come in come in well i had my musical bonnet on last night we're looking for the lost cord and i found it thumb joker was wearing it as a necklace i had to cut him loose from a ceiling beam to get the cord oh fun later on we sang sentimental songs everyone was so touched in the head one gay play got so hysterical he fell on himself ran himself through very lay dead but no blood the zombie the party broke up when everybody broke down ah yes a little life of an evening can be deadly tonight's inner sanctum mystery the devil's workshop was written by john robot and stars mason adams and the role of tony with john banks as tina the light story was specially devised to get you used to the coming winter chill just try to shrug it off i dare you our hero is tony murillo creator of the devil's workshop a talented young man with a genius for evil the devil's workshop i created it and i live in it living with me as every murderer whoever amounted to anything hatchet men pathological killers bloody mary and the devil himself we live in it all of us with one difference only i'm flesh and blood and their wax my hands made them it's a good business i can't keep up with the cash orders pouring in from wax museums all over the world it's a good business except that sometimes it gets in the way of your love life a little your girl wonders about you sometimes tony how did you ever fix on such a strange occupation maybe because i'm strange myself and maybe because it's my name is murillo murillo see that figure standing alongside the refrigeration room a chubby little bald fella with the face of an angel he shot nine men before a sheriff's party got him he was Cesar murillo my old man sometimes your girl tina forgets the blood around her is make believe in the lunatic faces of homicidal killers are only wax did bloody mary just swing at you with her axe no no not mary it was the devil i could swear he moved just now tony look what do you want me to see the devil grinning and moving his lips look tony i'm not crazy no you're not crazy he's always grinning and moving his lips always and moving around the room always restless today he's behind this killer tomorrow that killer a watching hickman the butcher and always grinning and moving his lips like he was egging them on tony do you know what you're saying forget it things happen to you in my kind of workshop you turn in for the night on an iron army cut and the shop comes alive you're a wax and they're flesh and blood and all of them having a time of it for themselves with the devil dividing the time the best he can among others wake up and there he is behind someone else for the day or you wake up but he's gone the devil's nowhere in the workshop isn't he just up and went on the town tina yes don't what are you trying to pull pull i don't understand the devil he's nowhere in the workshop tony what are you saying but you were here during the night and carried him off nobody else could have gotten in why should i steal your your devil whoa i reported it to the police as a theft to a sergeant tracy and somebody stole your devil you say a wax devil is there another kind hey you were asleep when the door was locked yes any windows to the loft so leading to a fire escape but they were bolted from the inside well if the door and windows were locked how do you figure the robbery was worth i don't know could he have uh walked down the devil had me i don't know i returned to the workshop by way of the docks just a door or two from the workshop a man stopped me a man in black black as if he was wearing the night around he wore a hood just his eyes showed like small batteries of light make an outcry and i'll kill you you're going to rob me no commission you commission me you tony marillo yes where's your workshop two doors down i came to you because of your genius with your hands you want a figure no just a face a face for me you see i have no face i mean no adequate one in the workshop the eyes gleaming from holes in the hood turned on me sit down while i unmask sit down it may be a shock i'm not pretty every day i see things you're not pretty to see very well then look where is your face all that there is you see you're you're just a skull like death i can breathe but through holes i can eat and talk but your mouth is just a slit no lips no flesh like your face was eaten away it was eaten away it was how you really want to know i can't stand it it was abandoned somewhere in desert country the bandit had a sense of the grotesque he didn't like my face he said you want a face for me yes but a wax face what good would you are not you're only to comply not the judge you will rebuild my face you will model a nose lips and a chin but out of wax it's crazy better a surgeon surgeries done i want a wax face tempered as firmly and durably as those dummies but handsomer i want to be handsome in fact as handsome as you as me yes make my face in your likeness well why do you keep staring you you could be the wax devil you have a lively imagination have i and a perverse habit of staring now what's running through your imagination what i just said you could be the wax devil i could be wax the wax devil disappeared this morning all right touch me and satisfy yourself and let's get this over with so you can work on my face feel my hand it's flesh and blood too believe me i would you prefer experimenting with a pin now you still think i'm your missing devil you you couldn't be but i got to work i posed myself in the wall mirror and rebuilt his face and wax a fine straight nose and a strong chin like mine i mixed colors into the wax to get a reddish glow to the cheeks i made the face durable as much as my skill could and when it was modeled into the warm mass i kept him in the refrigerator room as long as i did you have a face let me see it was your mirror over there job tony i i can breathe and i can talk you plan to work intelligently look at me i could be you in wax yes you could be me how long can the face last indefinitely if you keep the core temperature then i'll live here with you i must wear better than here i'll have your hands at my disposal and your refrigerator room besides i want to show my gratitude by rewarding you rewarding me how i'm making you rich enormously rich money at jewels treasures all right coming from everywhere in the world from banks and from merchants and from misers i forgot to tell you not only do i not have an actual face i haven't the conscience either he was going to steal for me he said but he began by stealing from me tina i'd had a date with her but she hadn't shown up i'd waited half the night but she never came the next day when she dropped into the workshop i land into what changed your mind change my mind we had a date last night i waited for you didn't show up i didn't show you're insane we kept our days we what we kept our dates and we had fun for the first time in weeks we had fun i i even fell in love with you all over again what did we do you don't remember tony what's the matter with you oh my what did we do well it there was an open air movie and and the drive into the country was sang and joked and and parked in lovers lane tony what is it what's come over you you were out last night all right tina but not with me you were out joy riding with the devil after that first date the devil and tina kept palling together night after night dates every night and tina smiling like she just discovered herself like she was having the time of her life even when tina found out he was a ringer for me she preferred him i couldn't talk her out of it i couldn't beat her out of it all knock some sensitivity about the killer quit dating that freak you have no right to order he's a devil only in your crazy head he's warm and real and even tender his face is a dollar's worth of wax like a match to her a multiple way he told me how that happened the terrible way he was mutilated i cried tony i wasn't repelled i i just cried for him you went for a gag he invented that horror story about his face and if he did invent it he did invent it it doesn't make any difference to nothing makes any difference to me not even if he's the devil not even then all these days you've been telling me he's the devil a thing with a false face and no conscience and while you've been telling me all that do you know what i keep thinking tony what i keep whispering to myself how do you keep thinking so exciting to be in league and in love with the devil are you surprised tony i wanted to laugh as if she was having a fit to moving away from me deeper into the workshop losing herself in a crowd of wax figures hatchetman and crazy killers i followed with my eyes as far as i could i suddenly i saw her as someone else she wasn't tina any longer but mary bloody mary she was down the stairs gone running from me i went back into the workshop i had to get hold of myself i was seeing things you seem a little unsettled tony you yes me you handled tina very clumsily what were you spying i couldn't help overhearing you i was there in your refrigerator room you've got tina and a crazy spell she adores me and quite naturally what do you mean quite naturally it's not just the torture resemblance you and i now bear to each other that draws tina to me it's far more than that i'm more her kind i don't understand you she told you she found me exciting couldn't you guess why it was just talk to drive me crazy to get even for the pushing around i give now it was more than that you see you and i are superficially the same and quite matched mentally neither of us can lay too uh too much claim to sanity but you have one attribute that i don't possess and it's the lack of that uh attribute in me that attracts tina what haven't you got that attracts tina a conscience you think i'm joking i don't think you know tina on the contrary you don't know her you see her simple and lovely and good in fact you want her like that consequently you repress her where i free her now i know you're the devil scheming to remake tina in your image am i did you see her before did you see the curious transfiguration she underwent when she dared free herself and laugh really laugh yes she seemed to change right under my eyes she seemed to change into what an older face wild and crazy and gloating like like bloody mary waving her axe bloody mary back there with the wax figures like bloody mary that night i crept along after them the devil and tina as an observer along the harbor front where ghosts of ships float into blackness to a small park in the fancy east end where tired men sit on benches and dream into the river i watched them work as a team team on the devil smoothly every move coordinated as if they were both powered by one instinct the city got up to go and then he screamed suddenly and struggled the devil had his arms in a vice as tina swung the axe i'd been wrong about tina the devil was right her face looking down on a victim was the face of a maddened killer the face of bloody mary the devil had promised to reward me by making me rich he hadn't forgotten for you tony a small down payment on my gratitude for this face a man's wedding band it's not much but the rich had a little worth stealing only a watch a few poultry dollars in this ring the money goes to tina i will keep the watch i don't want to ring but you must take it it brings the three of us closer and ensures two of us against notions you may entertain about the police it also suggests another way that you will eventually become a problem to me how will i become a problem you took the wedding band reluctantly just now but soon you'll become bolder greedier soon you'll want more soon you'll demand tina too you'll try to recapture her from me i want no part of tina i do tina i never want to lose you to tony i don't think you ever will will you marry me then right away you don't know whatever you've done but not that you you can't marry but i can tony i can and i will tina did and i watched and for you tina take this this man to be your lawfully wedded husband i do please place the ring on her finger ring i forgot about the ring tony yes the wedding band you acquired earlier may i borrow it for the bride yes i have it here in my pocket it was a beautiful ceremony you don't think so tony it was a nightmare your bad company for honeymooners drop us in the nearest motor court and then be on your way be on my way yes we'll manage without you nicely i dropped them at a motor court but i didn't go on my way much i pulled the car to a side shut the lights and i tried to think i tried to corner my brain and force one idea one idea the devil could have tina but he couldn't wear my face i thought about that and the idea grew his power over me was my face i was mixed up about everything crazy is all get out but this one idea was the clearest thing i understood the devil couldn't wear my face any longer not if i wanted to hold on to the only thing i had a conscience i crept into their cabin very noiseless tina had dropped off in a chair he was on a bed breathing heavily i lit a torch i'd made of paper and twigs with my knee and the bitter stomach and one hand like a steel vice on his throat i held the blazing torch he awakened but lay helpless making whimpering sounds i watched first his chin up and then his cheeks and then little hot rivers of wax run down here on him and on me tina tony stop stop tina look behind his face look at your brain let's go i rolled in the dirt outside just felt the flames on my clothes tina didn't escape when she saw the flames were too much that it was too late to save him she hung herself across him on his funeral pyre the last thing in my ears is the cabin began to fall i'm back in the devil's workshop now winding everything up making plans to junk everything here for keeps sergeant tracy is here with me trying to make sense out of what he checked of my story i had a whole group of specialists go through the rubble of that cabin that burned to the ground i started the fire i destroyed his face and tina fought with me and oh you told us that already there weren't two corpses in the rubble tony just a lot of wax wax over everything the devil was undoubtedly that wax figure you reported missing but tina we're checking over your workshop just now i'll find another figure in your inventory missing another figure bloody mary bloody mary is missing see for yourself i didn't know exactly what you did the other night in acting out your hallucination but there's no doubt in my mind that the two people who were burned in that fire was a wax devil and a bloody mary a man was axed to death and robbed in the park on the east end you said that murder never took place to me i'm as crazy as that well let's just say you took that weird business here in a little seriously now that uh just about explains everything more or less uh desert or does it there's one big question mark we're trying to slough off at the department because if we don't we'll all start looking under our beds at night one big question sergeant we went through the rubble that cabin with a fine comb all we found as i said was wax and uh this this a wedding band a man's wedding band i hear there's a sign outside a certain workshop that reads for sale owner gone off permanently you can find in chief anybody a small down payment a wax dollar say with your mind the security for the balance of your sanity though the blazing lover's triangle finally boiled down to just tell me imagine all that wax and no candle wake as a close friend of mine remarked to his keeper make a rental service out of your face and you're liable to get it in the neck broadcast for service men and women overseas this is the united states armed forces radio service the voice of information and education