Meteor Man by Lights Out

Summary

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Relic Radio Sci-Fi

Episode: Meteor Man (Lights Out)
Date: March 30, 2026
Host: RelicRadio.com

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Episode Overview

This week's Relic Radio Sci-Fi brings a classic "Lights Out" episode titled Meteor Man, a suspenseful tale blending cosmic horror, mystery, and the existential dread that typify early science-fiction radio. Host Arch Oboler presents a story about Professor Russell Adams, his wife Diane, and the petrifying events that occur when a meteor lands near their rural home, exposing them to a terrifying life-form from deep space.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Opening and Set-Up (00:30 – 02:32)

• Introduction by Arch Oboler:
  "[...] a story I enjoyed writing for you because, well, frightening as the thought may be, it could happen."
  (Arch Oboler, 01:22)

• Character Dynamics:
  Russell and Diane are introduced in a playful mood, discussing Diane’s sculpture and reveling in their affectionate marriage. Russell’s humor and Diane’s creative spirit set a warm, domestic scene.

• Contextual foreshadowing:
  Russell jokes about battered sculpture:
  "The basic thing wrong with woman is her nose. Look." (Russell Adams, 01:38)
  Diane retorts with mock-annoyance and their chemistry establishes a normalcy soon upended.

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2. The Meteor Shower and Impact (02:32 – 06:55)

• Set under a Romantic Moon:
  Russell refuses to discuss science, insisting, “I don't know a single scientific fact about this moon. It's a special satellite built entirely for romance.” (Russell Adams, 02:22)

• Meteor Shower Spectacle:
  Diane notices unusually bright and numerous shooting stars. Russell reveals this is a predictable triennial meteor event, but Diane senses a foreboding, “How frightening. Those great masses of stone and iron coming from who knows where... traveling millions and millions of miles and then going up in such glorious flame just as they reach the end of their journey.” (Diane, 04:48)

• Strike and Immediate Investigation:
  A meteorite lands alarmingly close. Russell insists on looking for it immediately:
  "I've got it. A fragment of it. Still warm. See? No larger than a baseball. All that was left of it." (Russell Adams, 06:49)

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3. Superstition vs. Science (06:55 – 09:41)

• Helga’s Panic:
  The Adams’ housekeeper, Helga, is terrified, “Mrs. Adams. It was exploding. Now everything's all right. Helga, what's going on?... The fire, it come from the sky. It kill us. It kill you and me and everyone.” (Helga, 07:51)

• Russell’s Dismissal:
  "Superstitious idiot. Simple phenomena. And she thinks the world's ending. Several little meteorite, iron, bit of nickel content. Nothing particularly unusual." (Russell Adams, 08:16)

• Discovery of the Mark:
  Diane notices an odd marking on the meteorite, a fissure circling the stone.

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4. The Meteor's Horrifying Secret (09:41 – 13:22)

• Meteor Splits Open:
  At Diane’s urging not to break it, Russell uses a hammer anyway and the meteor splits:
  “By George, it did clean in half.” (Russell Adams, 09:41)

• Inside: Living Flesh
  “Look. What's inside? Flesh. Oh.” (Diane, 09:45)
  The couple is horrified to see a protoplasmic, growing mass inside the meteor.

• Rapid Growth and Horror:
  The flesh grows rapidly, forming a head.
  “A head. Horrible head.” (Diane, 11:43)

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5. The Alien Speaks (11:51 – 16:53)

• Unnatural Communication:
  The entity addresses them directly, laughing at their fear.
  “I laugh at the fear and wonder in your simple little faces.” (Alien Entity, 12:12)

• Cosmic Perspective:
  The alien speaks with disdain for humanity, “You see what I will you to see.” (Alien Entity, 14:53)
  “A mind. And a will beyond your feeble understanding. As far above you as you are above the apes that still must crawl in your jungle.” (Alien Entity, 15:02)

• Alien Motive Revealed:
  The entity reveals its species travels in meteors to escape their dying cold world and seek a new food source on Earth.
  “You are the cattle, and we are the keepers...now, as I told you, our world has grown too old and too cold. The herds of you die, and we grow hungry. That is why I am here. We need new cattle here. There are so many of you.” (Alien Entity, 17:22-18:17)

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6. Climax and Escape (18:17 – 21:02)

• Possession Attempt:
  Alien's psychic force tries to draw Diane toward it, “Only me, Earth woman.” (Alien Entity, 18:41)
  Russell, paralyzed, desperately commands her not to move:
  “Diane, I beg you, don’t go closer to it.” (Russell Adams, 19:04)

• Final Struggle:
  Summoning strength, Russell grasps a bottle of nitric acid, hurls it onto the alien:
  “Monster. Not Diane. Diane, I beg of you, don't go closer to it....Take this.” (Russell Adams, 19:04, 19:51)

• Aftermath:
  The creature destroyed, Russell fears there may be more on the way:
  “And that thing said more of the monsters of his breed are trying to reach this Earth to fuel the devil's hunger.” (Russell Adams, 20:51)

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7. Postscript & Existential Dread (21:13 – 22:38)

• Reflection on Humanity’s Frailty:
  Host Arch Oboler contemplates the plausible but chilling idea of humanity’s swift extinction by cosmic events:
  “The amazing thing about it, Frank, is that there are so many logical and thoroughly possible ways in which the entire tribe of mankind could be wiped off the Earth at any moment... The spectacle of man's inhumanity to man becomes a cosmic joke.” (Arch Oboler, 21:19)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Russell Adams:
  "The probabilities of being struck on the head by that cosmic rubbish is about a thousand times more remote than winning a sweepstake without buying a ticket." (05:11)

• Diane:
  "Those great masses of stone and iron coming from who knows where in interstellar space, traveling millions and millions of miles and then going up in such glorious flame just as they reach the end of their journey." (04:48)

• Alien Entity:
  "You are the cattle, and we are the keepers." (17:22)

• Arch Oboler (Final Thoughts):
  "When we realize how precarious little mankind's hold is on this earth, the spectacle of man's inhumanity to man becomes a cosmic joke." (22:18)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Arch Oboler’s Introduction: 01:22
• Meteor strikes: 05:23
• Meteorite retrieved: 06:49
• Meteor breaks, revealing flesh: 09:41
• Life-form reveals itself: 11:51
• Alien’s cosmic threat: 17:22
• Struggle and acid attack: 19:51
• Philosophical afterword: 21:19

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Tone & Atmosphere

The performance is steeped in suspense, classic horror, and a 1940s perspective on science fiction. The dialogue mixes humor, skepticism, and terror as the situation escalates from domestic tranquility to existential peril. The banter between Russell and Diane is affectionate and light-hearted at first, but quickly becomes charged with fear. The Alien Entity's otherworldly disdain evokes cosmic horror, while Arch Oboler’s closing monologue delivers thoughtful existential dread about humanity’s fragility on a cosmic scale.

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Conclusion

"Meteor Man" exemplifies the chilling vision and imaginative storytelling of early sci-fi radio: ordinary people confronted with the cosmic unknown and threatened by forces vastly beyond their control or comprehension. With themes of arrogance, mortality, and the unpredictability of existence, it’s a haunting story reflecting both the wonder and terror of interstellar possibility.

Transcript

[Diane]

Relic radio.

[Relic Radio Announcer]

This is Relic Radio. Sci Fi Old time Radio. Science fiction stories from relicradio.com.

[Lights Out Narrator]

Ionized Yeast presents Lights out, everybody.

[Russell Adams]

It is later than you think.

[Lights Out Narrator]

Lights out brings you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal, dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We tell you this frankly. So if you wish to avoid the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays, we urge you calmly but sincerely to turn off your radio now.

[Arch Ober]

My name, Arch Ober. Tonight, a story I enjoyed writing for you because, well, frightening as the thought may be, it could happen.

[Russell Adams]

And furthermore, I might speak frankly, my dear Diane. The basic thing wrong with woman is her nose. Look.

[Diane]

Cut it off, Russell Adams.

[Russell Adams]

Then there's the matter of her ears. Look at them. Well, they're too obvious. Cut them off, too.

[Diane]

No nose, no ears. Fine art critic you turned out to be.

[Russell Adams]

Oh, is this thing odd?

[Diane]

Russ Adams, I hate you. I think it's the best piece of sculpture I've ever done.

[Russell Adams]

Egomaniac.

[Diane]

Will you go away?

[Russell Adams]

Not until I tell my wife how much I adore her. About stopping the artistic endeavors for the night and romancing with the old man.

[Diane]

Any night.

[Alien Entity]

Come on.

[Russell Adams]

Out on the veranda there's a moon.

[Diane]

Spoken as Professor Russell J. Adams, instructor of astronomy at our beloved university.

[Russell Adams]

I don't know a single scientific fact about this moon. It's a special satellite built entirely for romance.

[Diane]

Then it's a date.

[Russell Adams]

After you, fair Diane. Why do you laugh?

[Diane]

Just thinking. It's a good thing we haven't any neighbors or. Or they'd think we were honeymooning.

[Russell Adams]

Ten years and two more weeks.

[Alien Entity]

Sweet.

[Diane]

Why, for remembering

[Russell Adams]

weather. Sigh.

[Diane]

It's such a lovely night.

[Russell Adams]

Yes, you're very lovely with the moonlight in your hair. Darling, 335 days out of the year. Moonlight to me is just a reflected light of the sun.

[Arch Ober]

A light?

[Russell Adams]

Interesting. Only that it may be analyzed spectroscopically. But these 30 days of our vacation, Diane. Oh, what a magical change. It's a soft lover's moon hanging in the heavens. Only to brighten your loveliness.

[Diane]

People wonder why I can't get excited about Ronald Coleman.

[Alien Entity]

Coleman?

[Russell Adams]

Who's he?

[Diane]

Spoken like a true professor. He's a motion picture star. An absolute paragon of romance.

[Russell Adams]

Well, perhaps I shouldn't neglect my movie going oh so much. I mean. But you. Such paragons to teach one you do all right. Oh, Russell, what's the matter?

[Diane]

I saw the brightest shooting star.

[Russell Adams]

Is that all? The way you gasp, I thought you saw the angel of death himself galloping

[Diane]

over those Meadows, there's another one.

[Russell Adams]

Look, Russell, my dear, for 11 months out of the year, the heavens have my full and undivided attention. Oh, but during this blessed month, let the heavens fall. I can't be bothered.

[Diane]

I never saw such bright shooting stars.

[Russell Adams]

Yes, and another thing, my dear. As the wife of an accredited professor of astronomy, I think it no more than fitting than you give the phenomena that's too observed its proper name. Namely, the fall of a meteor.

[Diane]

There's another one. And another. Oh, Ruth, how bright and beautiful.

[Russell Adams]

They travel at such a tremendous rate, the friction of our atmosphere burns them into a fiery vapor.

[Diane]

There's more of them. Look. One after the other. I've never seen so many shooting stars. I mean, so many meteors in all my life. Oh, so that's why you wanted me out here. You knew about this meteor shower, didn't you?

[Russell Adams]

It's one of heaven's free spectacles in this constellation every three years. And this happens to be the third year.

[Diane]

How frightening.

[Alien Entity]

Why frightening?

[Diane]

Those great masses of stone and iron coming from who knows where in interstellar space, traveling millions and millions of miles and then going up in such glorious flame just as they reach the end of their journey.

[Russell Adams]

Not all goes to flame. Hundreds of them strike the Earth each year.

[Diane]

Oh, Russell, there's no danger.

[Alien Entity]

Oh, no.

[Russell Adams]

The probabilities of being struck on the head by that cosmic rubbish is about a thousand times more remote than winning a sweepstake without buying a ticket.

[Diane]

Look. That one. The brightest of all.

[Russell Adams]

Wait, Diane.

[Alien Entity]

What's that?

[Diane]

I don't know. Something from the sky. It's shooting star.

[Russell Adams]

Look out. Diane.

[Diane]

Ralph.

[Alien Entity]

All right, dear?

[Russell Adams]

Everything's all right.

[Diane]

What? How come.

[Russell Adams]

Here. Must have landed out in the field there. Here, let me help you. You all right?

[Alien Entity]

Desist.

[Diane]

Yes, I'm all right. Russ, where are you going?

[Arch Ober]

Out there.

[Russell Adams]

Where it must have buried itself. Wait here. I'll be right back.

[Diane]

No, no. I'm going with you.

[Russell Adams]

All right, if you want to. Oh, Diane, what an experience we've had. The one chance in a million I spoke about almost occurred to us.

[Diane]

But. But, Russ, was it really a shooting star? That explosion. Like a bombshell.

[Russell Adams]

A bombshell of the universe.

[Diane]

What will we find out there?

[Russell Adams]

A fragment of the meteorite, I thought.

[Diane]

But it'll burn.

[Alien Entity]

No, no.

[Russell Adams]

All of its heat will have been dissipated. Then again, it may have exploded into a thousand minute pieces. I pray to heaven that it hasn't.

[Diane]

I'm afraid.

[Russell Adams]

No, no. The dangers all over. Ah, here. Moon's so bright, if any of the mass landed I should be able to find the torn ground where it smashed through the turf.

[Diane]

Oh, please, darling, let's wait until morning.

[Russell Adams]

No, I must find the thing at once. The moon gives plenty of light. From the brightness to the flash, I'm positive that the meteor landed someplace. Right in here, I'll tell you.

[Diane]

Look. What?

[Russell Adams]

The turf, all torn up. This is the place.

[Diane]

Russell, Are you mad? Get up off the ground.

[Russell Adams]

Right here. Must have struck a glancing blow off the brow of the ridge. I've got it.

[Diane]

What?

[Russell Adams]

A fragment of it. Still warm. See? No larger than a baseball. All that was left of it.

[Diane]

That's a. That's a meteor.

[Russell Adams]

A meteor. You're right. All that's left of the meteor that burned and exploded. What a fine.

[Diane]

Drop it, Russ.

[Russell Adams]

What are you talking.

[Diane]

Throw it away.

[Russell Adams]

Come back to the hospital.

[Diane]

What. What are you going to do with it?

[Russell Adams]

Darling, what's the matter with you? Your face.

[Diane]

I. I don't know. I. Somehow I'm afraid for all of us.

[Alien Entity]

Afraid?

[Russell Adams]

Good heavens. My dear, there's nothing dangerous about this. A mass metal. That's 90% iron. Why, it's as harmless as any inert piece of metal. Come to the study, Iron. Show you where the rush of air against the incandescent.

[Diane]

Russ, wait. Someone's crying. Yes, I'll go and see. It's Helga. Helga, you poor thing. We forgot all about you. Mrs. Adams. It was exploding. Now everything's all right. Helga, what's going on?

[Russell Adams]

Diana?

[Diane]

Poor Helga. The explosion frightened her out of her wits. Mr. Professor Adams. We die. We all die.

[Russell Adams]

Don't be a fool.

[Diane]

The fire, it come from the sky. It kill us. It kill you and me and everyone. Bobby. We die. Stop it.

[Alien Entity]

Stop it.

[Russell Adams]

For heaven's sake, stop that. Take care of it. D. Give her a steroid or something.

[Diane]

All right. All right now, Helg, everything's all right.

[Russell Adams]

I'm going to get at this meteorite, so please quiet the dumb fool down as quickly as you can. Superstitious idiot. Simple phenomena. And she thinks the world's ending. Several little meteorite, iron, bit of nickel content. Nothing particularly unusual. Oh, Diane, quiet her down, will you?

[Diane]

Yes, she'll be all right.

[Russell Adams]

You look a little rocky yourself. Here, sit here.

[Diane]

She's very frightened.

[Russell Adams]

Yeah, and even you, Diane. Well, you've acted so strangely. As if this in that piece of cosmic metal could cause some supernatural ability.

[Diane]

What are you going to do with it?

[Alien Entity]

Nothing.

[Russell Adams]

Examine it. Here, I'll take some of this nitric acid.

[Alien Entity]

Where's that bottle?

[Russell Adams]

Now, watch closely. And I'll show you that the stone consists of ordinary elements.

[Alien Entity]

Iron.

[Diane]

Russell.

[Alien Entity]

What?

[Diane]

This mark on it. How strange.

[Russell Adams]

Funny I hadn't noticed before.

[Diane]

Circles the entire stone.

[Russell Adams]

I wouldn't be but surprised that a blow right here would break it in half. I think I'll try to do that.

[Diane]

No, no, Russ. Leave it alone.

[Russell Adams]

Good heavens, Diane. Nothing but a stone. All I'm going to do is try and break it along as fissure. You had a hammer. Wonder if the stone will break. Almost solid metal.

[Alien Entity]

I'll try.

[Russell Adams]

By George, it did clean in half.

[Lights Out Narrator]

What?

[Diane]

Look. What's inside? Flesh. Oh.

[Russell Adams]

Rathau negative grape. Protoplasmic. No, it can't be. It can't. This is a meteor. It came from out there. There is no flesh. Nothing could live.

[Diane]

Russ, look.

[Alien Entity]

Huh?

[Diane]

It's growing.

[Alien Entity]

Grow.

[Lights Out Narrator]

Ladies and gentlemen, a shooting star flashes out of the sky and falls to earth. And in it, something living from out of interstellar space.

[Russell Adams]

Yes.

[Lights Out Narrator]

If this is the time to take a breath before going on with tonight's lights out play, the story of Professor Adams and his wife and the thing from out beyond our world. A meteorite had fallen and Professor Adams had broken it open. And there was a gray nugget of flesh inside which, even as the professor and his wife stood watching, began to grow.

[Diane]

Faster and faster. Gray flesh growing or us? I'm afraid.

[Alien Entity]

No, Diane.

[Russell Adams]

No. Wait. Control yourself. This is something we've got to see. Both of us. Calmly. So we can tell others clearly what we saw.

[Diane]

I'll try. For us. Keep your arm around me.

[Russell Adams]

Larger and larger. Listen. The noise as it grows.

[Diane]

I hear it. When will it stop? When?

[Russell Adams]

Look. Look.

[Diane]

I can't. That horrible gray flesh.

[Russell Adams]

But you must see it.

[Diane]

Look.

[Russell Adams]

It's forming into something.

[Diane]

What?

[Russell Adams]

A head. It's forming into a head. How can it be, Diane? Flesh in a meteor. Growing. Growing into a head.

[Diane]

I see it. A head. Horrible head.

[Russell Adams]

You hurt?

[Diane]

Yes.

[Russell Adams]

Head without body. Speaking.

[Alien Entity]

Yes, speaking.

[Diane]

Russell.

[Lights Out Narrator]

You.

[Russell Adams]

You hear and. And understand me.

[Diane]

Laughing.

[Alien Entity]

I laugh at the fear and wonder in your simple little faces. Who are you?

[Russell Adams]

What are you?

[Alien Entity]

If I told you, would your little Earth spines understand?

[Russell Adams]

Tell us whatever you are. Tell us what you are.

[Alien Entity]

What you on Earth will soon help for masters.

[Russell Adams]

No, no, no. Wait. Diane. I must know. You thing. What can I call you? Tell me what you mean, you masters.

[Alien Entity]

Surely you simple little men do not think. I think that in you creation has reached the ultimate.

[Diane]

Oh. Gray flesh talking. I'm getting out.

[Alien Entity]

You will stay.

[Diane]

Russ, I. I can't move.

[Alien Entity]

Nor. Nor I. You Cannot move. Who are you?

[Russell Adams]

Tell us. Who are you?

[Alien Entity]

You saw how I came.

[Russell Adams]

A tiny bit of protoplasm in that meteorite.

[Alien Entity]

So I willed myself to be. To reach your Earth.

[Russell Adams]

You. You came here in that? Through. Through space.

[Alien Entity]

Through space beyond your furthest conception. Earth thing. Many of my people. People have tried. I am the first to succeed. Then.

[Russell Adams]

Then meteors are.

[Alien Entity]

Are the means we have used to try and reach this haven of plenty. I am the first. Now there will be others.

[Russell Adams]

Now you. You're from another planet.

[Alien Entity]

An old world. Old beyond your understanding. A world grown cold in its age, empty with passing years. We must escape to a young, fertile world. This world.

[Russell Adams]

But. But you're only heads. Heads without bodies.

[Diane]

Oh, Russ. Russ, I'm so afraid.

[Russell Adams]

No, no, no, please. I must hear him speak. This that is happening to us is a miracle.

[Alien Entity]

Of all times.

[Russell Adams]

Tell me.

[Lights Out Narrator]

You there.

[Russell Adams]

Are you only heads in that world you speak of heads.

[Alien Entity]

Heads. You see what I will you to see.

[Russell Adams]

But what are you?

[Alien Entity]

A mind. And a will beyond your feeble understanding. As far above you as you are above the apes that still must crawl in your jungle.

[Russell Adams]

But how can it be that you speak as I speak and understand what I say?

[Alien Entity]

Your prattling wearies me. But I tell you this. All that you say, say. I know the most profound thought any of you Earth things have ever thought is to me as the babbling of children. But now I am hungry. You understand that, little thing?

[Diane]

Hungry.

[Alien Entity]

Hungry. Hungry with a hunger that has driven me over space without ending. Hunger that has brought me here.

[Russell Adams]

But what do you eat?

[Alien Entity]

You will know.

[Russell Adams]

What do you mean?

[Alien Entity]

What food could there be here to fill the hunger of such as I? Hunger that would make me entomb myself in metal, Flung into space in a hope that chance would bring me through the fire of that air of yours? What food? A thing. I don't know.

[Russell Adams]

Tell. Tell me.

[Alien Entity]

Come closer. Earth thing. Oh, no. And why? Oh, no. Earth thing? You don't.

[Lights Out Narrator]

Human.

[Alien Entity]

Human. You think you crawling worms are human to us, but.

[Russell Adams]

But if you're men.

[Alien Entity]

But we are not men. You are the cattle, and we are the keepers. You raise the cattle for life. And we, for centuries, have raised such as you and our world for life. But now, as I told you, our world has grown too old and too cold. The herds of you die and we grow hungry. That is why I am here. We need new cattle here. There are so many of you. Earth woman.

[Diane]

Russell. It spoke to me.

[Russell Adams]

We've got to get out of here.

[Alien Entity]

Earth woman.

[Diane]

No. No. Stop it. Don't look at me. Stop it.

[Alien Entity]

Come closer.

[Russell Adams]

Don't listen to him, Diana.

[Diane]

Closer.

[Alien Entity]

No.

[Russell Adams]

No. Don't move. Diane. Stay where you are. Stay right there, you hear?

[Alien Entity]

Only me, Earth woman.

[Diane]

Only you.

[Russell Adams]

No, Diane. No, don't say that. Don't look at that monster. Diane.

[Alien Entity]

Look at Diane.

[Diane]

Yes. Closer.

[Russell Adams]

No. Diane. Stand still. Don't move toward it. Don't.

[Alien Entity]

Closer.

[Russell Adams]

No.

[Alien Entity]

No.

[Diane]

Close.

[Russell Adams]

Monster. Not Diane. Diane, I beg of you, don't go closer to it.

[Alien Entity]

Closer. No, no, sir.

[Russell Adams]

I'll kill you.

[Alien Entity]

If I can only get through you. Soon you will move to me as she is. No, sir.

[Russell Adams]

Diane, If I could move.

[Alien Entity]

No, don't. Diane.

[Russell Adams]

I've got to find the way, the strength to stop him. Diane, you're almost my doctor. That bottle. Magic acid. The bottle.

[Diane]

Closer. Got it.

[Alien Entity]

Closer.

[Russell Adams]

Thanks. Yes. Yes. Close to you. Monster. Take this. A pool of flesh. Flesh. That's all. Diane, wake up. Open your eyes. I've killed the thing. I killed it. Diane, it's all right. I've killed it. Diane, look outside. It's still dark. Yes, the sky's still streaked with the rush of meteorites. And that thing said more of the monsters of his breed are trying to reach this Earth to fuel the devil's hunger. And him, another meteorite is just. And in it, perhaps. Oh, Diane. Diane, is there truly to be in.

[Alien Entity]

For mankind?

[Lights Out Narrator]

I. Mr. Oebler, will the end of the world come that way?

[Arch Ober]

Well, Frank, if you mean will the end for mankind come out of interstellar space in the form of a flying meteor? Well, there are some mighty interesting theories along that line. The amazing thing about it, Frank, is that there are so many logical and thoroughly possible ways in which the entire tribe of mankind could be wiped off the Earth at any moment. I'm not talking about famine or what's close to all of us, war. I mean other ways. A star moves into our darkness from somewhere out there in the blackness of interstellar space. And the pull of its presence might turn our spinning globe headlong into the sun. In a split second, all of mankind, all his building, his wonderful possessions, his precious little pile, would go up in a flash of fire or out of the sun itself. The very source of our life, as we all know, could shoot a long stream of explosive flame that would curl around us, and again, well, so quickly that no man would know what had happened. In split seconds, this Earth would be a charred, uninhabited spheroid. Yes, when one stops to think what a tiny little grain of sand this haughty world of ours actually is. In the dark sea of space. And when we realize how precarious little mankind's hold is on this earth, the spectacle of man's inhumanity to man becomes a cosmic joke.

[Lights Out Narrator]

All of those things are certainly interesting to think about, Mr. Ober. But tell us now what's going to happen next week.

[Arch Ober]

Next week? Boast Triste. No, that's not a dance. It's a story of chance. That unpredictable chance that makes one man a saint and the next man a Hitler. The flip of a coin, the turn of a card, the bend of a road. I think you'll like what we have to offer you. As usual next week, Lights out will

[Lights Out Narrator]

come to you again next Tuesday at the same time. Be sure to listen to Arch Ober's weird story of Val Trist.

[Russell Adams]

It

[Arch Ober]

is

[Alien Entity]

later than you think.

[Lights Out Narrator]

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[Relic Radio Announcer]

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