“KNOCK” BY FREDRIK BROWN #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE: “Knock” by Fredrik Brown starts with a short-short story based on the following text of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: ***“Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!”*** Fredric Brown condensed this text to read "a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long". Brown’s short story then goes on to elaborate on those two sentences and builds a more complete plot around them. “Knock” was originally published in the December 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. There have been three different radio adaptations (Dimension X, X Minus One and the Sci Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre). And now it gets another adaptation – in this episode. The story was also reprinted in The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949.

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Originally aired: May 20, 2021

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0:46.0	Welcome, weirdos! Welcome, weirdos. I'm Daren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories
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1:34.4	Coming up in this episode, it's Thriller Thursday and I'm back with another oldy but goody.
1:40.0	Knock by Frederick Brown starts with a short story based on the following text of Thomas
1:45.9	Bailey Aldrich.
1:48.0	Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, accepting one man.
1:53.4	Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.
1:58.3	Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude, sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the doorbell.
2:06.5	Frederick Brown condensed this text to read, A Sweet Little Horror Story that is only
2:12.0	two sentences long.
2:14.4	Brown's short story then goes on to elaborate on those two sentences and builds a more complete
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