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The Missing Room by Lynn Venable - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1950s
It was a dream house; yet the dream could have been a nightmare… The Missing Room by Lynn Venable, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
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You may remember Lynn Venable for the Post-Apocalyptic Story Time Enough At Last that we shared with you about six months ago. A story so good it was adapted for The Twilight Zone in an episode starring Burgess Meredith. Today’s short sci-fi story can be found on page 58 in Weird Tales Magazine in July 1953 , The Missing Room by Lynn Venable…
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