Looking for paperback science fiction collection of short stories (probably from about 1958-65) with a story about plants and trees being able to cry out (at a pitch not audible to humans) when they feel pain. A scientist, who devises a way to convert the sounds to those audible to humans, goes mad when he is able to “hear” the effects of mowing a lawn.
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Don’t know which anthology it was in (other than compilations of his own work), but that story is “The Sound Machine” by Roald Dahl.
This might be a Roald Dahl short story, maybe the one titled “The Sound Machine.” It would be in one of his collections.
It’s a Roald Dahl story called “The Sound Machine”
That short story is called “The Sound Machine” by Roald Dahl, it’s been published in several different books of short stories.
Sounds like “The Sound Machine” by Roald Dahl. Instead of mowing the lawn, however, the scientist in the story hears his neighbor cutting roses. It’s included in a science fiction anthology called “Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow.”
This short story might be in “Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night” edited by Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Arthur
Yep, it’s “The Sound Machine” by Roald Dahl.
It was ray bradbury (sp?) short story. A tree branch falls on the machine.