Solander's Radio Tomb

Aboard a bustling morning train, a brash amateur radio tinkerer finds himself in a heated argument with a fellow passenger over crystal versus tube sets. The dispute is interrupted when the enigmatic Remington Solander, the town’s reclusive millionaire, taps him on the shoulder and invites him to sit. Intrigued by the stranger’s wealth and the promise of a conversation about “radio,” the narrator reluctantly accepts, hoping to impress the aristocrat.

Solander quickly steers the talk toward the narrator’s side job as a cemetery trustee, revealing a strange plan that ties together his new radio experiment and the recently acquired burial grounds. As the two men plot a venture that could turn the quiet graveyard into a lucrative, and perhaps unsettling, enterprise, the narrator’s enthusiasm for his hobby is put to an unexpected test. The story unfolds with witty banter, social satire, and a hint of the absurd, drawing listeners into a world where the love of radio collides with the business of death.