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Dec 2023
21m 34s

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Scary Stories
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A young girl wakes up on Christmas Eve to find that her parents have not made their expected return on a flight across the Atlantic. Starring Greer Garson, Mary Lansing, Irene Tedrow, and Harry Bartell.

'Twas the Night Before Christmas features newly edited and mastered audio that originally aired as part of Suspense on December 24, 1951.

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