This Week on Mystery Theatre:”The Conclusion of “Time is Out of Joint”

In this week’s episode of Mystery Theatre’s “Time is Out of Joint,” we explore what mystery writer August LaFleur calls “the dream hemisphere.” That is, we consider stories that “depict time travel as a state of mind rather than a mechanical process.”

I’ve always been intrigued by such stories, exemplified by titles like A Christmas Carol, Somewhere in Time, Time and Again, and Slaughterhouse Five (all featured in this season of Mystery Theatre)—stories in which the engines of the unconscious pr...