His first play, Burial Services, concerned the burial of a paralyzed girl who was still alive. It caused such a furor {more than 50,000 letters were written to NBC} that Oboler would never again write a story with such a personal theme that could adversely affect a vast audience." Oboler remembered it this way: "I had taken a believable situation and underwritten it so completely that each listener filled the silences with the terrors of his own soul. When the coffin lid closed inexorably on the conscious yet cataleptically paralyzed young girl in my play, the reality of the moment, to thousands of listeners who had buried someone close, was the horrifying thought that perhaps sister, or brother, or mother, had also been buried … alive.
( John Dunning )
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