Resurrecting Dick Nash

There's the way we think the world operates, the familiar set of assumptions we thought we could safely make. Discovering how wrong we were about all that is one of life's true horrors.

The 1980's was a freewheeling time, a safe space for footloose adventures. Anything was possible. But there was also always an unnamable darkness, patiently waiting, right at the door.

A tale of forgotten technology from early 1980's America.

The year is 1983. One man's thoughtless act of cruelty begets a persistent entity that can plot, target, and act.

During the dawn of acid rain and superfund sites, a disgraced lawyer takes a security guard job at an anomalous waste facility right on the edge of his hometown.

Sitting in front of his old Smith Corona portable typewriter, Dick Nash hammers out what he hopes to be the next Great American Novel.

Energy, matter, long journeys: past and present both finally spiral down to the zero point, a site of a perpetual ground-state energy.

During the height of America's fuel crisis, an out of work reporter catches a glimpse of cosmic darkness on a highway at night. In the modern day, the lawyer makes a startling discovery with help from a colleague.

Following a decades-old lead and an abandoned stretch of highway, the lawyer stumbles into a tale of darkness, bad luck, and the kind of monsters that spawned in 1980's America.

A story surfaces in the papers of Dick Nash relating to a powerful and secretive millionaire's diabolical foray into life extension technologies.

An old house, sitting abandoned and filled with terrible secrets, may hold the next clue to the whereabouts of the Package.

The lawyer follows Dick Nash's trail to Azide, West Virginia. The town lies in a valley on which industrial and economic success has vast consequences in both Nash's time and our own.

Still on the trail of Dick Nash, the lawyer finds himself in a city on the shores of America's Great Lakes, where the rich and powerful play blithely with forces beyond their comprehension.

The Package must be located, and Reese Brady has been tasked by his enigmatic employer to find it. The only clues to the whereabouts of the Package are a series of disjointed field notes and tape recordings belonging to a 1980's era pulp fiction author who wrote under the name Dick Nash. In this episode, Brady traces Nash's steps through the forgotten and forlorn backroads of West Virginia.

The hunt for Dick Nash takes the lawyer to West Virginia coal country, and the listener back in time to the early 1980's, to a town named for a powerful local family and a mansion that houses great evil.