Welcome to the place where the calls are always coming from inside the house.

This is Sudapodout by Hal Ellison.

Hey everyone, welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast.

I'm Alister, your host, and this week's story comes to us from Harold Hal

Elson.

Elson was an American author of Pulp Fiction, whose work primarily focused on juvenile delinquency.

He was a social worker, recreational therapist, and nurses aide at Bellevue Hospital,

where he encountered the adolescent psychiatric patients

whom he based much of his fiction on.

He subsequently stated that many of the patients viewed him as a father confessor

and eagerly told him their stories

while trusting that he would not report them to law enforcement.

Harlan Ellison cited how Elson's work as having inspired his own interest in juvenile

delinquency,

an interest which led directly to the writing of Ellison's first novel,

Webb of the City.

Ellison also stated that in the earliest days of his career as a writer he was often mistaken for

Elson writing under a pseudonym and that decades later when Elson became much

more known Nelson's career had waned

Elson was often mistaken for Elison, writing under a pseudonym.

And this is the third version of this outro I've recorded, precisely because of the similarity

between those two names.

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