"The Edge of Running Water" , auth William Sloane, pub 1939. The setting is a remote house in Maine where a man is constructing a unique type of radio; one that can communicate with the dead. From the NYT Book Review---
"Readers are likely to shiver as much or more that the man who tells the story , for Mr. Sloane has the gift of producing chills and reactions known as thrills which seldom occur in "thrillers," but they do in this skeery tale of science or it's equivalent"
"The borderline between the natural and the supernatural is dangerous ground forthe average writer. Those who venture upon it usually go astray and to write of that which lies outside normal experience is something wise to resist, but Mr. Sloane is an exception. 'The Edge of Running Water' has suspense with that chill wind from the regions beyond man's knowledge."
"A few years ago Mr Sloane gave us a story titled 'To Walk the Night'; it was a remarkable compound of horror and suspense, one of those books that we savor thinking it can scarcely be duplicated, but here is 'The Edge of Running Water", as story just as good"
"Not a murder mystery, but far more terrifying"
"Readers are likely to shiver as much or more that the man who tells the story , for Mr. Sloane has the gift of producing chills and reactions known as thrills which seldom occur in "thrillers," but they do in this skeery tale of science or it's equivalent"
"The borderline between the natural and the supernatural is dangerous ground forthe average writer. Those who venture upon it usually go astray and to write of that which lies outside normal experience is something wise to resist, but Mr. Sloane is an exception. 'The Edge of Running Water' has suspense with that chill wind from the regions beyond man's knowledge."
"A few years ago Mr Sloane gave us a story titled 'To Walk the Night'; it was a remarkable compound of horror and suspense, one of those books that we savor thinking it can scarcely be duplicated, but here is 'The Edge of Running Water", as story just as good"
"Not a murder mystery, but far more terrifying"
