The Midnight Edition Archive

A midnight obituary-radio fiction podcast.

Filed after midnight · Literary audio fiction

Edward Vale's unfinished personal picture—also called Signal 9, The Man Who Cried Midnight, and Ruth, Pick Up—a script about a man whose alarm is real because no one comes.

Ed Vale worked on this picture in the Carver Street garage on the night he died.

A script page found beside the workbench reads INT. GARAGE — NIGHT, with a

pencil line beneath: "The man realizes the alarm is real because no one comes."

The title became the episode because Ed would have believed titles mattered,

and therefore they matter some.