A short one here, before the longer one coming up (The Waiting Grounds).
This one was a bit weird. It felt like something that Poe would have written, or Lovecraft in a thankfully much less wordy way. It has the same fascination with the possibilities of technology, and the same sense of the macabre.
It also has a chap called Maxted, a name which later turns up in Kingdom Come. Reduce, reuse, recycle...
Not much more can be said about the story than is said on the Wikipedia page, but I detected vague hints of a small commentary on surveillance society in the story of a scientist who secretly records his wife kissing another man. The sound of the infidelity is caught with hidden microphones, magnified and amplified by the scientist, and is turned against the other man, who he kills with poison. It's nice and Orwellian, or it looks that way to me, at least. That might say more about me than it says about the story, however...
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