Another one I remember from the old days . . . my cassette copy is in a box somewhere. The first couple of minutes of this download sounded a little funny, but a fine encode nonetheless.

And good acting in a good show. One of the things I like about this episode is that it is left up to the listener to decide whether or not there is a supernatural element in the story. Certainly the characters think there is, but when all is said and done, natural causes and explanations can satisfy the logic of the tale.

Somehow the death-row scenes seem especially vivid and well done. Those moments are the ones that form the sharpest pictures in my mind. The warden at home, etc. doesn't seem as visually clear in my imagination.

Monomania + a knife. This works. It's never really explained why the warden succumbs to this prisoner's psycho-jibe and not to any others'. I guess it might be supernatural. But the condemned man has a very strong personality; shades of Hanibal Lester.

And love saves the day. A bit of the beauty and the beast in that, as with many classic stories of great love overcoming great evil.