Slightly Chilling
IT’S positively uncanny, but straight on the heels of my plea for more of the eerie on the air I listened to 2YA’s (continued on next page)
Double Bill-Two Tales of the Supernatural. Both chilled, though not to curdling point. The first, "The Flute,’ had the virtue of comparative credibility. It is possible if, for example, you believe in mammets, to believe that the present owner of a desirable residence has encompassed, quite unconsciously, the death of the previous owner by the sheer concentrated power of his desire. Less credible, however, was the flute music, which sounded like the determined amateur at one’s elbow rather than the possessive expatriate overseas. Professor Guildea had a lovely theme-the coldly impersonal savant dogged by a mindless mawkish affection from whose solicitude he cannot escape. I thought the parrot particularly good shock-therapy. The ending, however, was a bit normalafter all, people disappear every day. I prefer it when the friend or coroner finds something, even if it’s only a small puddle of unanalysible liquid.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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174Slightly Chilling New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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