Two strangers, an artist and a stonemason, meet in the sweltering heat of a mid-August afternoon. A series of uncanny coincidences suggest that their fates may be intertwined... but is the future fixed, or is there anything they can do to change it?
A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio.
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William Fryer Harvey (1885–1937) was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He trained in medicine, but poor health led him to focus on writing, and he published his first book of short stories, 'Midnight House', in 1910. He suffered lung damage during service in World War I, the consequences of which remained with him for the rest of his life, and he lived in Switzerland for several periods in the 1920s to aid his recuperation before returning to settle permanently in England in the early 1930s. Harvey is best remembered as the author of several classic short stories in the genres of suspense and horror, the best-known being 'August Heat' (1910) and 'The Beast With Five Fingers' (1928).
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