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| Wyllis Cooper, creator of Quiet, Please |
The brainchild of Wyllis Cooper, a man whom Harlan Ellison tried to get put on a U.S. postage stamp for his contribution to fantasy writing, the radio program Quiet, Please has garnered a reputation as one of the better written dark fantasy drama anthologies ever created.
There is one particularly popular episode called "The Thing On The Fourble Board," on which you can read comedian Patton Oswalt's and writer Harlan Ellison's thoughts (and further rejoinders), here. The show is also posted at said link in the form of a Youtube video.
You can also download it as an mp3 file here from archive.org.
I can honestly say that listening to it in bed one night a few years back did creep me out. Not to the extent that Ellison claims that it did an entire generation of the most prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of the 1950s and 60s, but, it certainly merits a listen.
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