
In a quiet Midwest suburb, Nancy Laughton’s ordinary afternoon turns into a bewildering nightmare when a stranger bursts onto her lawn, insisting he’s her brother and snatching her infant son. Before she can process the shock, a snarling dog lunges at the intruder, forcing him to drop the crying baby and retreat in terror. The incident leaves Nancy rattled and convinced she’s losing her grip on reality, while her husband Martin struggles to calm her and call the police.
As the local sergeant questions the Laughtons, the strange visitor’s motive remains unclear, and the family’s modest life—marked by a bank‑owned house and modest insurance job—appears suddenly vulnerable. A visiting doctor and his assistant arrive just as tension peaks, hinting that something beyond a simple home invasion may be at play. Listeners are drawn into a mix of domestic suspense and a subtle undercurrent of science‑fiction intrigue, wondering whether the “Ultroom” error is a glitch in time, a mis‑directed experiment, or something far stranger.
Language
en
Duration
~24 minutes (23K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Feb 22, 2010
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1913–2002
Best known for his sharp science fiction and television work, this versatile writer helped shape mid-century genre storytelling on the page and on the screen. His career stretched from magazine fiction to scripts for landmark series including The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek.
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