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PseudoPod 742: The Sea Thing

PseudoPod

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Author : Frank Belknap Long Narrator : Andrew Leman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums This story was first published in Weird Tales, December 1925. The Sea Thing by Frank Belknap Long JULY 16—We are caught in one of the great calms. There is water in the well, and […]

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0:00.0

Once again folks, please enjoy the Electronic Plague, read for you by Dave Robeson.

0:06.0

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

0:13.0

The electronic plague, that infernal and unparalleled blight,

0:18.0

which spread over the country on the evening of September 10th,

0:22.0

1935, just after nightfall when everybody was tuning up the

0:26.8

radio, casting street and house into utter darkness, stopping completely the machinery of civilization and striking tens of thousands

0:36.5

of persons unconscious, hundreds of them never to awake. The electronic plague has never been satisfactorily explained to the public. Few

0:47.0

know the true story. Officials of the War Department have, locked securely away in their

0:52.3

most secret vault, the device that caused the woeful

0:56.0

disaster, and with it a document, the confession of Dr. Alexander Nash, its inventor, who himself died in the plague.

1:07.0

Welcome to Pseudopod's Public Domain Showcase for 1925.

1:17.0

Superbod, episode 742, January 29, 2021.

1:27.0

This week's story, The See Thing by Frank Belknap Along.

1:31.2

Hello everyone, welcome to Pseudepod, the weekly horror podcast. I'm

1:34.4

Alistair, your host, and once again this is one of our 1925 public domain

1:39.0

showcases. In this instance from Weird Tales in December of that year.

1:43.7

It's audio produced magnificently as ever by Chelsea

1:46.9

and we have a note for you about it but it's a note which is more than a little

1:50.2

spoil so I will move it to the end of the story. You know reader this week is

1:54.3

Andrew Lehman who is from San Francisco as is the boat involved and we'll leave things

2:00.7

there because listen carefully and what you'll hear is the truest of true stories. The Sea Thing

2:15.0

Thing by Frank Belknap Long Jr.

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