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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

(BONUS AUDIO) “The Long Question” by David Mason

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A man agrees to isolate himself on a remote island for a high-stakes quiz show—but as the silence stretches on, he begins to wonder if the game is changing him more than he expected.


Originally published in Infinity Magazine, 1957

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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.4

I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.

0:07.9

A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.

0:14.2

For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.

0:19.0

Like Teralis porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square meter.

0:22.4

Love it.

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

0:26.0

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.0

And the Evanses.

0:29.2

And the Bertels.

0:29.9

The long question by David Mason from Infinity, November 1957.

0:44.6

We promised you folks something special this week, Larry Lonegan said, his smile glittering under the bright lights of the studio, and win a mint always keeps its promises, don't

0:50.5

we?

0:51.5

So, folks, tonight, we're putting up the biggest mint offered yet on this program!

0:57.0

$100,000!

1:00.0

The applause was deafening.

1:03.0

Now then, here's the young man you all remember, the boy who hit the top money on our

1:08.4

little group quiz last week, and earned the right to win a

1:12.7

mint. Here he is, Mr. Don Gerson! Come on out, Don! Don Gerson was a tall, thin, young man with

1:21.2

a serious look. He did not wear glasses, but somehow he looked as if he ought to. He walked

1:27.2

on to the stage with a kind

1:28.6

of forced confidence and shook hands with Lonnigan.

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