
Pete Grahame receives a frantic letter from his old friend Vic Butler, hinting at danger and asking for help. Dropping everything, Pete races to Vic’s remote riverside house, a ramshackle stone home surrounded by maple shade. He finds the place buzzing with uneasy servants, a missing scientist locked away in a secret laboratory, and a desperate plea from Vic’s sister, Hope, who vanished inside the locked room. The scene is set with an ax in hand, a stubborn bolt, and a growing sense that something unnatural is humming behind the lab doors.
The mystery deepens as Pete confronts a maze of barred windows, frosted glass, and a cryptic note promising “action.” With only a few minutes since Hope entered, the air is thick with tension, and the hidden work of Vic’s brilliant but reclusive mind threatens to spill out. Listeners are drawn into a shadowy world of forgotten souls, secret experiments, and a race against time before the unseen danger can escape.
Language
en
Duration
~38 minutes (36K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2007-03-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1897–1970
An early pulp science-fiction favorite, he wrote brisk, adventurous tales of space patrols, strange worlds, and looming danger. His stories helped shape the magazine era of science fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.
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