 Slaughter was busy on stage during World War II, performing "Jack the Ripper, Landru" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".There were also one-act sketches such as "The Touch of a Child".After the war, Slaughter resumed melodramatic roles on screen and starred in "The Curse of the Wraydons" (1946), in which Bruce Seton played the legendary Victorian bogeyman Spring-Heeled Jack, and "The Greed of William Hart" (1948) based on the murderous career of Burke and Hare.