Inner Sanctum Halloween Month, day 11 of 31: "Death Across the Board"

For many years, Inner Sanctum Mysteries had been hosted by Raymond Edward Johnson; this episode features another famous 'Raymond' -- Raymond Massey! In "Death Across the Board", which was first broadcast June 5, 1945, Massey plays a fan of chess who discovers a criminal mastermind has decided to play a real-life game of chess using live human beings as the pieces -- and now Massey has been put into the game!

The script to this episode was recycled on Murder at Midnight on November 16, 1946; it was one of a handful of Inner Sanctum scripts which were recycled on Murder at Midnight. This episode was hosted by Paul McGrath and starred Raymond Massey. You can listen to this episode at archive.org by clicking here. Dare to compare! You can hear the Murder at Midnight version here.