Among the Living is a 1941 American horror film noir[2] directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey and Frances Farmer.

There, he meets his widowed stepmother, Elaine, and is shocked upon learning that his twin brother, Paul, whom he believed died at age ten, is in fact alive and has been kept hidden inside the family manor, largely overseen by the Radens' African American caretaker, Pompey.

John is told by the family doctor, Ben Saunders, that Paul became mentally deranged after his father struck him over the head, inducing brain damage.

Paul finds temporary lodging in a boardinghouse, where he befriends the landlady's daughter, Millie Pickens, and gives her money.

Bill Oakley, a resident of the Pickens' boardinghouse and disenfranchised ex-employee of the Radens' shuttered textile mill, forms a vigilante group to capture the killer.

Millie suspects the killer could be hiding in the Raden estate, which is regarded by most locals as a dilapdiated haunted house.