Today's Suspense episode is "Nightmare" (March 13, 1948) starring Eddie Bracken! Eddie Bracken was briefly a big comedy film star in the 40s and also starred in radio's the Eddie Bracken Show (1945-1947). This episode is from the era when Suspense was a full-hour program! This was also the third and final appearance Bracken made on Suspense (I blogged about both of them before: "The Visitor" and "Elwood").
Vince Hardy has a terrible nightmare one night where he's in a room surrounded by mirrors and kills a man with a knife. When he wakes up, he begins to suspect it wasn't a dream. Before long, he stumbles across the murder scene!
You might recognize this story; it was written by Cornell Woolrich (as "And So to Death") and was made into the 1947 film Fear in the Night with DeForest Kelley (his film debut). But beyond that, the story visits familiar tropes found in many of Woolrich's stories, such as a central character who can't trust their own memory (you'll possibly be reminded of another Woolrich story on Suspense: "The Singing Walls").
Thank you for following my Halloween 2025 posts celebrating comedians heard on Suspense! I hope to feature a series of similar posts next Halloween!
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