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 Pseudopod's Public Domain Showcase for 1925.

Pseudopod episode 740 for January 15th 2021.

Kexes by Marjorie Bowen.

I'm Alex co-editor of Suapod, your host this week.

We enter our third week of our 1925 Public Domain Showcase where we welcome stories that have

finally entered the public domain after 95 years.

We're also week three of the ladies first challenge where readers are challenged to move

fiction authored by a woman to the front of their line each year.

For more information about this challenge, pop over to the ladies of horror fiction.com.

Margaret Gabriel Vera Long was born in the hour between All Saints Day and All Souls Day

and grew up in a haunted house. Using the pseudonym Marjorie Bowen, she became one of the most prolific Gothic authors of her time and whose influence is still felt.

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