The Earth Is Made of Glass: A Journal of Madness and the Murmur of Guilt

Originally Aired: September 27, 1945

In Suspense #160, “The Earth Is Made of Glass,” a brilliant but disturbed intellectual, Richard Steele, attempts to prove Emerson’s concept of karmic justice wrong—by committing a “laboratory murder” without motive, connection, or consequence. But even as he believes he’s escaped detection, his own mind becomes the battlefield, haunted by phantom rhythms, distant voices, and the unshakable image of his supposed victim. Starring Joseph Cotten in a cerebral descent into obsession, guilt, and the inescapable law of cause and effect, this episode is a haunting meditation on conscience and cosmic justice.

Cast:
Joseph Cotten

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