Originally Aired: July 29, 1948
Suspense #300, "The Yellow Wall-paper," Agnes Moorhead stars as a woman whose husband John, a doctor, has rented an isolated country house for the summer to help cure her nervous condition. Against John's orders, she keeps a secret journal to record her thoughts and feelings. Despite the beautiful grounds and his caring attention, she finds something deeply unsettling about the house, particularly the nursery room at the very top where John and his sister Jenny insist she stay. The room features barred windows, mysterious rings in the walls, and most disturbing of all, a repulsive yellow wallpaper that appears torn and scratched by previous occupants.
As her husband dismisses her concerns and forbids her from working or writing, the narrator becomes increasingly obsessed with the hideous wallpaper surrounding her. She describes its revolting color and strange patterns of strangled heads, bulbous eyes, and fungus growths that seem to mock her. While John and Jenny smother her with kindness and concern, she begins to sense something sinister in the room itself, feeling that the wallpaper hates her as much as she hates it.
