Brattons Idea by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a bustling Hollywood film studio, Old Bratton is just another overlooked janitor - until night falls and he retreats to a hidden workshop where he pursues his true calling: creating life with wires, motors, and crackling electricity. His experiments have produced only disappointing failures, but a sudden opportunity arrives when a temperamental ventriloquist, Ben Gascon, casts off his stage partner, a wooden dummy named Tom-Tom, in the wake of a humiliating personal fiasco. To Bratton, the discarded puppet is not a prop but a perfect vessel, and he throws himself into one last, secret attempt to spark genuine animation. The result is not the obedient marvel he imagined. As rumors and violence ripple through Los Angeles, the boundary between show-business illusion and real-world menace begins to dissolve, pulling Gascon into a frantic search for answers and forcing him to confront what Bratton may have unleashed. Blending mad-science invention, noir-tinged crime, and uncanny terror, Bratton's Idea explores ambition, responsibility, and the chilling price of giving a manufactured thing a will of its own.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:27) Chapter 02

(00:24:09) Chapter 03

(00:39:18) Chapter 04

(00:53:02) Chapter 05

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