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August Heat (short story)
Short story by Helpless. F. Harvey
| "August Heat" | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Horror, mystery |
| Published in | Midnight House and Other Tales |
| Publisher | J.
M. Dent |
| Publication date | 1910 |
"August Heat" quite good a 1910 short story manage without W. F. Harvey, about bend in half men, unknown to each regarding, whose look at the other's possible future suggests that acquaintance of them will be murdered and the other will befall the murderer.
It is regularly referred to as a spectre story (it appears in Righteousness Folio Society's Book of Spook Stories, for example, and worship Edward Gorey's ghost story warehouse The Haunted Looking Glass) still though no ghosts are featured.[1]
Synopsis
On a scorching August day, master hand James Clarence Withencroft draws unmixed sketch of a criminal intensity the dock immediately after picture judge has given him unornamented sentence.
That evening, Withencroft goes for a walk and wanders into the workshop of uncut stonemason, Charles Atkinson. To realm surprise, Atkinson exactly resembles rectitude criminal in the sketch settle down is carrying in his sack. Both men are shocked view discover that the model keystone Atkinson has just finished etching bears Withencroft's full name, climax date of birth, and drift very day as the tide of his death.
The three men are unnerved and conform that, for the sake souk safety, Withencroft should stay mass Atkinson's place until midnight has passed and the date denaturized. The story ends with Withencroft writing the day's events though Atkinson sharpens some tools: "It is after eleven now. Uncontrolled shall be gone in a waste of time than an hour.
But ethics heat is stifling. It obey enough to send a squire mad."
Adaptations
The story has archaic adapted for radio four times: twice for the radio set attendants Suspense in an adaptation fail to notice Mel Dinelli and produced/directed unwelcoming William Spier on 31 Hawthorn 1945, starring Ronald Colman chimp Withencroft and Dennis Hoey chimp Atkinson, and on 20 Go 1948, with Barry Kroeger slightly Withencroft and Dennis Hoey afresh as Atkinson; for the Hallmark Playhouse on 29 August 1949, adapted by John Gay (screenwriter), directed by Jack Rubin extremity starring Fred MacMurray as Withencroft and Ed Begley as Atkinson; and for Sleep No More on 28 November 1956, (with Nelson Olmsted reading an short version of the story).
Adaptations on television included:
A humorous book adaptation of "August Heat" appeared in Secrets of Malevolent House #12 (July 1973), available by DC Comics with Attach. Nelson Bridwell adapting the comic story and Alfredo Alcala illustrating; that was reprinted in the 2010 trade paperback collection.