Maurice Baudin 20 min read

A quiet lakeside concert, a harmless hi-fi hobbyist, yet Woodard trembles at the sound, sound, sound, surrounded by the fools he despises at the summer hotel.

Maurice Baudin's 1961 story builds creeping hard-SF horror from high-fidelity audio and a misanthrope's frayed nerves. Sharp, eerie golden-age SF. Read it for an unsettling tale where something in the music preys on a man who has come to nature only to be tormented.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

20 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Dan Adkins