008 Horror – Old
The Fire Inside by
Nick Stafford was a puzzling and compelling radio drama that I’m not sure I’ll
ever figure out, nor, I suppose, were you meant to (à la “The House in Cypress Canyon” from Suspense). Jack (Philip
Jackson) and Mavis (Kate Rutter) have something to hide. When a mysterious traveller (Jonathan Tafler)
begs shelter at their very remote house in a storm, they hesitate to let him
in. Eventually they do. He has apparently walked there and gotten
lost, but sits too close to the fire and does other vaguely weird things. In the night, in the worst of the storm, a
hawk with broken wings flies, or is blown, into Jack and Mavis’ bedroom
window. At the same time, they hear a
scream upstairs from Ellis. When they
venture into his room, he has disappeared—although there is a truly
hair-raising moment when Mavis says that his clothes are rising from the chair. It turns out—or at least we are given to
believe—that he has spontaneously combusted, and that the slime they find all
over the floor are his remains. You’re
left with a lot of unanswered questions at the end of this drama, but that
doesn’t make it any less haunting. Stephen Critchlow plays the police
officer. Originally from 1999, The Fire Inside was directed by Claire
Grove.
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