
Part 1
Nathanial Evergood appears to his colleagues as the very picture of dull propriety—a reclusive, unassuming accountant who never joins a drink or a lunch. Beneath that bland exterior, however, he harbors a disturbing fascination with the female form, channeling it into a private world of photographs, magazines, and even a deck of playing cards adorned with provocative images. His obsession drives him to invent a special camera lens capable of capturing women in ways that ordinary optics cannot.
The walls of his modest home are plastered with thousands of pictures—blondes, brunettes, redheads, girls of every age and shape—each meticulously curated and hidden from prying eyes. Evergood’s relentless pursuit of new material leads him to order obscure publications in unmarked envelopes, while his own photographic equipment lets him produce his own unsettling visuals. As the story unfolds, listeners are drawn into the uneasy tension between his outwardly respectable life and the secret gallery that threatens to expose the darkness at its core.
Language
en
Duration
~17 minutes (17K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1954.
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Oct 1, 2021
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

Best known for the provocative mid-century science-fiction story And All the Girls Were Nude, Richard Magruder used an outrageous invention to explore voyeurism, privacy, and social hypocrisy. His work blends dark humor with sharp commentary on human behavior.
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