Laura by Robert Aickman

Over the years, a beautiful and seemingly ageless woman enters Andrew’s life, then promptly disappears.

Joss Ackland reads another tale to chill the blood.

In Robert Aikman’s story, meek bank worker, Andrew, attends a party where he meets an older woman called Laura.

They head upstairs to one of the bedrooms, where Laura tells Andrew that she loves him and then goes to make a phone call promising to return.

She doesn't…

Abridged and produced by Richard Dunn.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1986.