All of his senses seem acutely attuned to his surroundings. Thoughts tumble relentlessly through his head and he finds himself in a state of restlessness he has never before experienced. And the events that occur after the hypnosis are all the more disquieting. Strange stuff, indeed, if not a little disquieting. Tom felt no pain and remembers none of this. Tom is told that while he was under he was “stretched out like a board between two chairs” and that Philip had “run a cigarette lighter flame along both of (his) exposed legs” and stuck pins into his arms. Of course, he is wrong, is, in fact, one of the best subjects Philip has ever worked with. A few other couples from the neighborhood are present and it is in front of this captive audience that Philip hypnotizes Tom, a skeptic of the highest order who believes that there is no way he could ever be hypnotized. The man’s name is Tom Wallace and one evening he and his wife, Anne, and his brother-in-law, Philip, who is in town for a couple of days, attend a get-together being held at Tom and Anne’s next door neighbor’s house. Matheson’s original screenplay adaptation of the book.ĭETAILS: In A Stir of Echoes we are presented with a perfectly ordinary man leading a perfectly ordinary life who is one day suddenly confronted with the extraordinary. OVERVIEW: The Gauntlet Press’s re-release of the classic Richard Matheson novel also includes Mr.
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