Dead Eyes Opened Lyrics - Since The Accident - Severed Heads

Edgar Lustgarten reading from "Death on the Crumbles (1924)", from the 

BBC Radio show "Scales of Justice": 

"By strange coincidence, a thunderstorm had been brewing when Mahon, doing 

his grisly work at the bungalow, was dealing with the most grisly job of 

all--the head, the woman's head. He had severed it from the trunk, built a 

huge fire in the sitting room, placed her head upon it, then (I owe a debt 

here to Edgar Wallace, who edited the transcript of the Mahon trial), then the 

storm broke with a violent flash of lightning and an appalling crash of 

thunder. As the head of Emily Kaye lay upon the coals, the dead eyes 

opened, and Mahon fled out to the deserted shore. When he nerved himself 

to return, the fire had done its work. The head was never found..." 

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