Spine-Chiller
FOUND myself rising gasping to the level of normal living after my halfhour’s immersion in the murky depths of The Diary of William Carpenter (2ZB, September 12), as nice a ration of radio-active menace as a _ listener (with a four-valve radio) is likely to strike in a month of listening, Unfortunately the pleasure I derived from being scared was slightly flawed by the thought that William Carpenter should never have been given an airing as early as 7.45'p.m., such is the degree of morbid conscientiousness induced by listening to a recent discussion, "Does Radio Help or Hinder the Child?" The Diary of William Carpenter would definitely have hindered the child. It is the morally impeccable story of a man who tries to frighten his wife to death, and gets frightened right back or, to put it more classically, is hoist with his own petard. The atmosphere is slapped on with the heavy hand of a Rivera. The footsteps echo. The clock ticks. People breathe. Foulness lurks. The heroine (obviously a poor housekeeper) seems to have made no effort to eradicate the dark patch on the landing where the previous victim’s blood oozed forth. . . . The : silences are ~pregnant, and always productive of something quite horrible.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 8
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