Campfire Radio Theater · Haunted Air Audio

Demon Eyes

December 17, 2011·33 min·3 clips

Morrow gives Agent Gowan glasses that reveal demons with black eyes.

Borrowed eyeglasses make the world terrible. Condemned murderer Wesley Wayne Morrow has handed Agent Gowan something stranger than evidence, and his execution is coming fast. Nothing about it feels clean. Cell service drops, the local news keeps counting down to 9 p.m., and Gowan cannot shake the question of why Morrow gave the glasses to her. Through them, ordinary people stop looking ordinary. Some faces hide eyes lit with hellish fire. Bellamy thinks the case is solved. Over hot sauce and police memory, he paints Morrow as guilty, deranged, and impossible to explain in any tidy legal way. Morrow admitted the killings. He would not take an insanity defense, even though doctors could not settle what kind of mind would carry out that kind of ritual violence. The details are nasty and matter-of-fact. Victims came from every background. Bellamy says Morrow attacked by surprise, cut out the still-beating heart, buried the bodies deep, and placed the hearts somewhere else. That is where the procedural chill starts to bend. Gowan hears a pattern that sounds less like random madness and more like someone hunting whatever lives behind a human face. The glasses keep picking at the world. Seeing clearly becomes the dangerous part, because a face is no longer proof of anything. The ending gives her no clean exit. Gowan is still wearing the glasses, scared that one morning the eyes in her own mirror may not be hers. Demon Eyes turns a murder case into demonic horror, and lets evidence, belief, and identity spoil in the same frame.

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A grim horror tale that treats evil like evidence, not theater.

Demon Eyes starts with a convicted murderer and a pair of borrowed eyeglasses, then pushes that setup into something colder: a story about what might be hiding under human skin.

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You'll want this if a death-row case and a demon sighting start to feel like the same file.

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