Dreamscape Book Jacket
WXBN in Dreamscape
In Plymouth, Massachusetts an impressive array of four antennae point skyward atop a tree lined, rounded hill. The radio station, overlooking Plymouth Bay, sends a signal hundreds of miles west and north across Massachusetts' South Shore and east over the Atlantic Ocean. People enjoy the easy listening format and a few oldies.
In my daily trek along the highway below the antennae, (a landmark from the air, too) I dream about past voices and words long since dissipated far out at sea or squelched on a car radio now buried in the junk yard. I listen to talk radio hosts, and a vanquished world forms in my head. Entrance to that shadowy world is simple.
Rod Serling
"You unlock this door with the key of imagination ..."
Opening the Door
What was that radio station like thirty years in the past? And what of talk show hosts or anyone now in a position of prominence ... what were they doing thirty years ago? And now more intrigue as I circle the antenna hill: What if someone owed their present position to a murder or murders in Plymouth, Massachusetts ... years ago. Hmmm.
The way back
Just having a conventional detective search for the truth would be okay. I wanted a tad more mystery and a lot more fantasy. How about having the people who were murdered reach through time?
I stare at the towers. The signal beckons. Two people who were killed thirty years ago by this pompous talk show host who started his career in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
In dreamscape, dreams are real ...
Kathryn, a young woman in Ohio, has nightmares. In her dreams she hears and sees Lucy Leone and her boyfriend, Smitty ... just before their murders in Plymouth.
Now, the door of imagination is cracked open, but how about actually getting this woman back in time to solve the murders? Step through the door into 1958.
1957 Plymouth Fury
The late 1950's was a long time ago.
Kathryn now searches for the man who killed Lucy Leone and Smitty. Let the murder investigation begin.
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Further Reading
The Twilight Zone, Shadow Play (teleplay), by Charles Beaumont
The Twilight Zone, Twenty-Two, (teleplay) by Rod Serling
