A radio horror, created by a mad brain, menaced the world with destruction.

The electronic plague, that infernal and unparalleled blight, which spread over the country on the evening of September 10th,

1935, just after nightfall when everybody was tuning up the radio,

casting street and house into utter darkness, stopping completely

the machinery of civilization and striking tens of thousands of persons unconscious,

hundreds of them never to awake. The electronic

plague has never been satisfactorily explained to the public. Few know the true

story. Officials of the War Department have locked securely away in their most secret vault,

the device that caused the woeful disaster, and with it a document,

the confession of Dr. Alexander Nash, its inventor, who himself died in the plague.

Welcome to Pseudopods Public Domain Showcase for 1925. Sudapod episode 738 for January 1st, Iish, 2021. We made it folks. This week's story bewitched by Edith Wharton.

I'm Sean Garrett, co-editor of Sudapod, your host this week. Happy New Year to everyone. It's that time of the year again

as our government's antiquated copyright system grinds into life and releases

another batch of stories this time from 1925 into the wild and woolly domain of the public.

As with last year we will be showcasing 1925 era stories for the next five weeks

so hold on to your hats as we have some real

treasures coming up. This week's offering, Bewitched, was written by Edith Wharton

1862 to 1937 and originally appeared in the Pictorial Review of March 1925.

Wharton, best known for her novels, some of what you may have read in school, was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1921.

We love her best for her gothic and ghostly tales often involving New England.

According to the author, the judge of a good ghost story is thermometrical.

It should send the cold shiver down one's spine.

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