Is There Anybody There?
- Eloi Bronze Medal
- by Kim Newman
- Short Story
- Fantasy, Horror
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Is There Anybody There?” by Kim Newman, in The New English Library Book of Internet Stories, Maxim Jakubowski (New English Library, November 2000).
More horror than anything else, but amusing nevertheless as an internet stalker in 2001 communicates via a Ouija board with a psychic in 1923.
Always, he would leave memories to cherish; months later, he would check up on his net-pals—his score so far was five institutionalisations and two suicides—just to see that the experience was still vivid. He was determined to crawl into IRENE D’s skull and stay there, replicating like a virus, wiping her hard drive.
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- “Is There Anybody There?” by Kim Newman, in The New English Library Book of Internet Stories, Maxim Jakubowski (New English Library, November 2000).