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"The Stone Tape" remains well-regarded to this day. Roger Fulton, writing in "The Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction", calls it "arguably the most creepy drama ever seen on television". The writer and critic Kim Newman regards it as "one of the masterpieces of genre television, an authentic alliance of mind-stretching science fiction concepts with horror and suspense plot mechanics". Writer and member of "The League of Gentlemen", Jeremy Dyson feels that "The Stone Tape" "strikes a note that it just circumnavigates your intellect and gets you on a much deeper level [...] it just has this impact on you, rather like being in the room itself. Extraordinary piece of work". Writer Grant Morrison recalled "The Stone Tape" as "really creepy and very memorable. Just brilliant images. That scared the hell out of me!". Sergio Angelini, writing for the British Film Institute's Screenonline, has said that ""The Stone Tape" stands as perhaps his ("Nigel Kneale's)" finest single work in the genre". Lez Cooke, in his book "British Television Drama: A History", has praised the play as "one of the most imaginative and intelligent examples of the horror genre to appear on British television, a single play to rank alongside the best of "Play for Today"".