A newspaper critic is cursed by an occultist and learns the only escape is to transfer the deadly curse to someone else.

This CBS Radio Mystery Theater broadcast aired on March 4, 1974. It is listed as episode 50 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Larry Haines, Norman Rose, Evie Juster, Roger De Koven, and Gilbert Mack. Other credited names include Himan Brown as director, Murray Burnett as writer, and E. G. Marshall as host.

The broadcast is also associated with Kellogg's and Budweiser.

This version dramatizes Casting the Runes.

Himan Brown's hour-long dramatic anthology revived radio mystery for a later generation with stories of crime, horror, the supernatural, science fiction, and suspense, most famously hosted by E.