Beaumont wrote "Static" in 1960. Two years before anyone noticed something was wrong with him. He wrote a character who hears things nobody else hears. And everyone around the guy decides he's lost it. Then that exact thing happened to Beaumont, except it wasn't radio signals. It was his own mind getting harder to hold onto. His friends ghostwrote for him. He still split the fee.

You put him in parentheses, but he might be the whole episode. The Vinnie part is sharp, in hospice terms that's the family selling the radio. Original title was "Tune in Yesterday." Beaumont stole it for his own essay.