A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

“Was I mad? Or was the top of the bed really moving down, sinking slowly, silently horribly right down upon me as I lay beneath?"

A young man is tricked into staying the night in a disreputable gambling house.

Short story by Wilkie Collins adapted by Michael Bakewell.

Read by Paul Danemen.

Producer: Rosemary Hart

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1989.