I have long been a devotee of these British Library anthologies of forgotten writing of the weird. Many of them are reviewed elsewhere on this blog. They are always a mixed bag and one cannot expect to find them all of equal standard. The Night Wire, which on the face of it should be exactly my milieu being focused on weird media (cameras, telegraphy, radio and television, all of them my specialty) sad;y turned out to be the exception. A couple of them caught my attention. Unfortunately none thrilled me in any way or sparked my imagination. Even Rudyard Kipling, describing the early experiments of Marconi and possible contact with the Other Side, turned out to be a beautifully written dud. Sorry, just not up to the usual standard.
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