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22nd December 2006, 04:08 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire
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|  help identify title & author hi, read this short story 30 years ago, I found it quite haunting & It stayed with me ever since - from fickle memory, basic plot is man found dead having broken into electricity sub station & shorted self out on "buss-bars" mystery with (hero) scientist/detective? trying to unravel reason- then more & more people start to do the same in some kind of uncontrollable mass suicides on national scale - breaking into power stations etc. any ideas folks? |
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21st April 2007, 09:15 PM
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| Re: help identify title & author That rings a bell, does it go on to involve some sort of malignant force that inhabits the powerstation and attracts people by the buzzing in powercables? Also, does the blokes wife get killed by her hairdryer at the end? |
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23rd April 2007, 05:05 PM
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| Boggart  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Medway
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| Re: help identify title & author High Eight by Keith Roberts (Originally published under the psuedonym David Stringer. And yes, that's where I got my name from.) One of the best ghost stories I've ever read. Most recently published in 'The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction' edited by Mike Ashley:Amazon.com: The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction: Books: Mike Ashley |
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