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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 2, October
-1934, by Charles D. Hornig
-
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-Title: The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 2, October 1934
-       The Fan's Own Magazine
-
-Author: Charles D. Hornig
-
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FANTASY FAN, VOLUME 2, NUMBER
-2, OCTOBER 1934 ***
-
-
-
-
-                            THE FANTASY FAN
-
-                        THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE
-
-                               Published
-                                Monthly
-
-                       Editor: Charles D. Hornig
-                   (Managing Editor: Wonder Stories)
-
-                            10 cents a copy
-                            $1.00 per year
-
-                        137 West Grand Street,
-                         Elizabeth, New Jersey
-
-                               Volume 2
-                            September, 1934
-                               Number 2
-                             Whole No. 14
-
-      [Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any
-  evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
-
-
-
-
-                            OUR READERS SAY
-
-With this issue, we are dedicating each number to someone or something.
-H. P. Lovecraft, one of the greatest writers of the weird alive today,
-well deserves the honor of being the first, with a story and long
-instalment of his "Supernatural Horror in Literature" for October. The
-November issue will be dedicated to Clark Ashton Smith, December to
-Edgar Allan Poe, (in this issue Mr. Lovecraft's article deals entirely
-with Poe and is the longest one yet) and the January number to Weird
-Poetry. Schedule subject to change without notice. Let us know what you
-think of these dedications, and submit your vote telling who or what
-you want the following issues to be dedicated to.
-
-This issue has gone to press before reports have come in on the
-September number, which boasted the smooth paper cover, so all letters
-refer to the August or previous issues.
-
-"Read the new TFF yesterday with great interest and pleasure. The
-sketches by Barlow and Morse are very notable. Let us hope that the
-success of volume one will be brilliantly duplicated in 1934-5."--H. P.
-Lovecraft, Providence, R.I.
-
-"Congratulations on your successful piloting of TFF through the first
-year of its existence! The high grade of the subject matter and the
-careful planning visible in its presentation have made it always
-interesting and instructive. I sincerely hope that you will soon
-be able to realize your hopes of expansion."--Richard F. Searight,
-Detroit, Mich.
-
-"The August issue is very good, Richard Ely Morse's 'Ebony and Ash'
-being an outstanding little thing. I hope to see more verses, if
-possible, from the 'Dreams of Yith' by Duane W. Rimel."--Robert Nelson,
-St. Charles, Ill.
-
-"Great is the August issue of TFF! I enjoyed immensely the splendid
-tale 'Ebony and Ash,' by Richard Ely Morse. Let's have many more fine
-stories by this new talented author. I enjoyed very much, too, the
-excellent poems, 'Necromancy' and 'The Unremembered Realm.' These two
-poems were certainly the product of masters of the art. 'The Annals of
-the Jinns' was also very good, as was the entire issue. I shall never
-grow tired of reading such a grand issue! Enclosed find ten cents for
-an additional copy."--Fred John Walsen, Denver, Col.
-
-"Just a line to let you know how much I enjoyed the August TFF.
-R. H. Barlow scores again with his story 'The Fall of the Three Cities'
-and the one by Richard Ely Morse was splendid. Your brief editorial
-interested me a great deal and points toward a better and larger TFF!
-The poems by Clark Ashton Smith and Robert Nelson were superb."--Duane
-W. Rimel, Asotin, Wash.
-
-"Enclosed you will find a dollar for another year's subscription to our
-great little magazine, TFF. Allow me to congratulate you for keeping
-it alive, even at a financial loss to yourself, for the interests
-of the weirdfan. The outstanding features of the more recent issues
-are Kenneth B. Pritchard's 'True Experiences.' I imagine that the
-late Charles Fort would have liked to interview him."--Bob Tucker,
-Bloomington, Ill.
-
-"Your August number is well up to average. The Morse story was
-well-written and interesting; and the two poems really quite good."--R.
-H. Barlow, De Land, Fla.
-
-"The last issue of TFF was diversified enough to satisfy all of us.
-My only complaint is that the magazine is far too small. I'd like
-to see two or three times the number of pages. Let's hope the day
-soon arrives when you will be able to do so. An occasional notice by
-Wright would no doubt work wonders. I was glad to see that Petaja has
-continued his little column on 'Famous Fantasy Fiction.' However, he
-lists 'Sinister Stories' written by Walker. I suspect he has in mind
-the book 'Sinister Stories' _written_ by Jasper John and _published_ by
-Walker in England in 1930. Again he mentions 'Wolves of Darkness' by
-Algernon Blackwood. If memory serves me correctly, I believe the only
-story in the book written by Blackwood was the title story, 'Wolves of
-Darkness.' All the others were written by Wilford Wilson."--H. Koenig,
-New York, N.Y.
-
-"Just finished the first volume of TFF and am writing to tell you it's
-a grand mag. Far the best stories were Howard's 'Gods of the North' and
-Morse's 'Ebony and Ash.' Other high spots were Hoy Ping Pong's satires;
-numbers one, three, five, and eight of the 'Annals of the Jinns'; 'From
-Beyond,' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'Spurs of Death' by Natalie H. Wooley;
-Lovecraft's serial article; and 'Weird Whisperings.' I have only two
-kicks coming. You don't have enough science fiction material and I
-don't care for Mr. Pritchard's exciting experiences."--J. Sam Smart,
-New Bloomfield, Mo.
-
-"It was easy to see that Barlow's 'The Fall of the Three Cities' was
-the best feature of the August issue. The best column was 'Gleanings'
-by Louis C. Smith. I hope to see this new feature every month. All in
-all, this issue was well above standard and I hope that during the next
-year you can give us fans as high a grade of material as you have been
-doing. My congratulations on the past year's success! We are with you
-in the future, too!"--F. Lee Baldwin, Asotin, Wash.
-
-Write in to "Our Readers Say" and give us your opinion of the current
-issue of THE FANTASY FAN. Your suggestions and criticisms are welcome
-too.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-
-                           WITHIN THE CIRCLE
-
-                           by F. Lee Baldwin
-
-At one time Forrest Ackerman had a complete collection of _Ghost
-Stories_--the old large-size magazine of the photographic
-illustrations, featuring strange stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray
-Cummings, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., etc.--but disposed of them all upon
-coming across science fiction. This was when he saw his first Amazing
-Stories--Vol. 2, No. 6, the September 1926 number. Incidentally, this
-issue contains the only story by H. P. Lovecraft ever to appear in
-Amazing, "The Colour Out of Space."
-
-Farnsworth Wright is a former music critic of _The Chicago American_.
-
-This seems to be quite a season with our authors for travelling, E.
-Hoffmann Price has just recently paid a second visit to Clark Ashton
-Smith of Auburn, Calif.; Robert E. Howard spent some time exploring the
-gigantic Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Perhaps we'll be getting some
-tales along that line, after a while. Richard F. Searight spent some
-time amid the scenic grandeur in Houghton, Michigan; H. P. Lovecraft
-has just returned from a visit with R. H. Barlow of De Land, Florida
-and is now taking a trip to ancient Nantucket Island, off the coast of
-Massachusetts; Jack Williamson has also returned from a sojourn in Key
-West where he met Edmond Hamilton; Donald Wandrei has been on a fishing
-trip in the woods of his native state, Minnesota.
-
-H. P. Lovecraft denies all connections with the "The Battle that Ended
-the Century" (Ms. found in a time machine). He was in De Land or in
-St. Augustine at the time it was mailed, and by the time he was in
-Washington D. C., the Eastern readers had received their copies.
-
-Richard Ely Morse is the son of an Amherst professor and an assistant
-librarian at Princeton.
-
-Louis C. Smith of Oakland, Calif. is a collector of weird and fantastic
-books and has a library of over two hundred volumes.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-
-                              WEIRD TALES
-               is the only magazine on the market today
-                   presenting really literary weird
-                 fiction--masterpieces of the macabre
-                 and unearthly. Boost it and help its
-                  circulation by securing new readers
-                           whenever you can.
-
-                             Subscribe to
-                            THE FANTASY FAN
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-
-                   SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE
-
-                          by H. P. Lovecraft
-
-                             Part Thirteen
-
-                   (copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook)
-
-               VI. Spectral Literature on the Continent
-
-On the continent literary horror fared well. The celebrated short
-tales and novels of Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776-1822) are a
-byword for mellowness of background and maturity of form, though they
-incline to levity and extravagance, and lack the exalted moments of
-stark, breathless terror which a less sophisticated writer might have
-achieved. Generally they convey the grotesque rather than the terrible.
-Most artistic of all the continental weird tales is the German classic
-_Undine_, (1814) by Friedrich Hein-Karl, Baron de la Motte Fouque. In
-this story of a water-spirit who married a mortal and gained a human
-soul there is a delicate fineness of craftsmanship which makes it
-notable in any department of literature, and an easy naturalness which
-places it close to the genuine folk-myth. It is, in fact, derived from
-a tale told by the Renaissance physician and alchemist Paracleus in his
-_Treatise on Elemental Sprites_.
-
-Undine, daughter of a powerful water-prince, was exchanged by her
-father as a small child for a fisherman's daughter, in order that
-she might acquire a soul by wedding a human being. Meeting the noble
-youth Huldbrand at the cottage of her foster-father by the sea at the
-edge of a haunted wood, she soon marries him, and accompanies him to
-his ancestral castle of Ringstetten. Huldbrand, however, eventually
-wearies of his wife's supernatural affiliations, and especially of
-the appearances of her uncle, the malicious woodland waterfall-spirit
-Kugleborn; a weariness increased by his growing affection for Bertalda,
-who turns out to be the fisherman's child for whom Undine was
-exchanged. At length, on a voyage down the Danube, he is provoked by
-some innocent act of his devoted wife to utter the angry words which
-consign her back to her supernatural element; from which she can,
-by the laws of her species, return only once--to kill him, whether
-she will no, if ever he prove unfaithful to her memory. Later, when
-Huldbrand is about to be married to Bertalda, Undine returns for her
-sad duty, and bears his life away in tears. When he is buried among
-his fathers in the village churchyard a veiled, snow-white female
-figure appears among the mourners, but after the prayer is seen no
-more. In her place is a little silver spring, which murmurs its way
-almost completely around the new grave and empties into a neighbouring
-lake. The villagers show it to this day, and say that Undine and her
-Huldbrand are thus united in death. Many passages and atmospheric
-touches in this tale reveal Fouque as an accomplished artist in the
-field of the macabre; especially the descriptions of the haunted wood
-with its gigantic snow-white man and various unnamed terrors, which
-occur early in the narrative.
-
-Not so well known as _Undine_, but remarkable for its convincing
-realism and freedom from Gothic stock devices, is the _Amber Witch_ of
-Wilhelm Meinhold, another product of the German fantastic genius of the
-earlier nineteenth century. This tale, which is laid in the time of
-the Thirty Years' War, purports to be a clergyman's manuscript found
-in an old church at Coserow, and centres round the writer's daughter,
-Maria Schweidler, who is wrongly accused of witchcraft. She has found
-a deposit of amber which she keeps secret for various reasons, and the
-unexplained wealth obtained from this lends colour to the accusation;
-an accusation instigated by the malice of the wolf-hunting nobleman
-Wittich Appelmann, who has vainly pursued her with ignoble designs. The
-deeds of a real witch, who afterward comes to a horrible supernatural
-end in prison, are glibly imputed to the hapless Maria; and after a
-typical witchcraft trial with forced confessions under torture she is
-about to be burned at the stake when saved just in time by her lover,
-a noble youth from a neighbouring district. Meinhold's great strength
-is in his air of casual and realistic verisimilitude, which intensifies
-our suspense and sense of the unseen by half persuading us that the
-menacing events must somehow be either the truth or very close to the
-truth. Indeed, so thorough is this realism that a popular magazine once
-published the main points of _The Amber Witch_ as an actual occurrence
-of the seventeenth century!
-
-In the present generation German horror-fiction is most notably
-represented by Hanns Heinz Ewers who brings to bear on his dark
-conceptions an effective knowledge of modern psychology. Novels like
-_The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Alranae_, and short stories like _The
-Spider_ contain distinctive qualities which raise them to a classic
-level.
-
-But France as well as Germany has been active in the realm of
-weirdness. Victor Hugo, in such tales as _Hans of Iceland_, and Balzac,
-in _The Wild Ass's Skin_, _Seraphita_, and _Louis Lambert_, both employ
-supernaturalism to a great or less extent; though generally only as
-a means to some more human end, and without the sincere and daemonic
-intensity which characterises the born artist in shadows. It is in
-Theopile Gautier that we first seem to find an authentic French sense
-of the unreal world, and here there appears a spectral mastery which,
-though not continuously used, is recognisable at once as something
-alike genuine and profound. Short tales like _Atavar_, _The Foot of
-the Mummy_, and _Clarimonde_ display glimpses of forbidden vistas that
-allure, tantalise, and sometimes horrify; whilst the Egyptian visions
-evoked in _One of Cleopatra's Nights_ are of the keenest and most
-expressive potency. Gautier captured the inmost soul of aeon-weighted
-Egypt, with its cryptic life and Cyclopean architecture, and uttered
-once and for all the eternal horror of its nether world of catacombs,
-where to the end of time millions of stiff, spiced corpses will stare
-up in the blackness with glassy eyes, awaiting some awesome and
-unrelatable summons. Gustave Flaubert ably continued the tradition
-of Gautier in orgies of poetic phantasy like _The Temptation of St.
-Anthony_, and but for a strong realistic bias might have been an
-arch-weaver of tapestried terrors. Later on we see the stream divide,
-producing strange poets and fantasists of the symbolist and decadent
-schools whose dark interests really centre more in abnormalities
-of human thought and instinct than in the actual supernatural, and
-subtle story-tellers whose thrills are quite directly derived from
-the night-black wells of cosmic unreality. Of the former class of
-"artists in sin" the illustrious poet Baudelaire, influenced vastly
-by Poe, is the supreme type; whilst the psychological novelist
-Joris-Karl Huysmans, a true child of the eighteen nineties, is at once
-the summation and finale. The latter and purely narrative class is
-continued by Prosper Merimee, whose _Venus of Ille_ presents in terse
-and convincing prose the same ancient statue-bride theme which Thomas
-Moore cast in ballad form in _The Ring_.
-
-The horror-tales of the powerful and cynical Guy de Maupassant, written
-as his final madness gradually over-took him, presents individualities
-of their own; being rather the morbid outpourings of a realistic
-mind in a pathological state than the healthily imaginative product
-of a vision naturally disposed toward phantasy and sensitive to the
-normal illusions of the unseen. Nevertheless they are of the keenest
-interest and poignancy; suggesting with marvelous force the imminence
-of nameless terrors, and the relentless dogging of an ill-starred
-individual by hideous and menacing representatives of the outer
-blackness. Of these stories _The Horla_ is generally regarded as the
-masterpiece. Relating the advent to France of an invisible being who
-lives on water and milk, sways the minds of others, and seems to be the
-vanguard of a horde of extra-terrestrial organisms arrived on earth
-to subjugate and overwhelm mankind, this tense narrative is perhaps
-without a peer in its particular department; notwithstanding its
-indebtedness to a tale by the American Fitz-James O'Brien for details
-in describing the actual presence of the unseen monster. Other potently
-dark creations of de Maupassant are _Who Knows?_, _The Spectre, He_,
-_The Diary of a Madman_, _The White Wolf_, _On the River_, and the
-grisly verse entitled _Horror_.
-
-(Continued Next Month)
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-
-             THE FAVORITE WEIRD STORIES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT
-
-                        (Courtesy of H. Koenig)
-
-"The Willows" A. Blackwood, "The White Powder," "The White People,"
-"The Black Seal" A. Machen, "The Fall of the House of Usher" E. A. Poe,
-"The House of Sounds" M. P. Shiel, "The Yellow Sign" R. W. Chambers,
-"Count Magnus" M. R. James, "The Death of Halpin Frayser" A. Bierce,
-"The Moon Pool" (original novelette) A. Merritt.
-
-The first nine titles were in Mr. Lovecraft's original list published
-in "The Side Show." You will notice that he stipulates the original
-novelette version of "The Moon Pool" as the tenth selection. This of
-course eliminates the story as it was published in book form, including
-the sequel.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-
-                           WEIRD WHISPERINGS
-
-                       by Schwartz and Weisinger
-
-Rumor had it that for several years Farnsworth Wright, editor of _Weird
-Tales_, was writing stories and poems under the pseudonym of Francis
-Hard. When we asked for permission to "break" the story, Wright said
-that "since the secret is already out that poems and stories published
-under the name Francis Hard were in fact written by me, of course I
-have no further objection to its being known. I have written nothing
-new since I became editor of _Weird Tales_ in 1924, but I wrote stories
-for _Weird Tales_ previous to that, when it was edited by Edwin Baird.
-When I became editor one of my stories was already in type for the next
-issue (A story called "The Great Panjandrum"). I thought it looked
-rather phony for an editor to use his own stories in his magazine, even
-though the story had been accepted by a previous editor; so I used the
-pen name Francis Hard as the author of that story (Hard was my maternal
-grandmother's name). Feeling that an editor is a bad judge of his own
-stuff, I submitted some stories that I had written several years ago,
-to Otis Adelbert Kline, whose literary judgement I value highly, and
-used the two that he liked--one in _Oriental Stories_, and the other
-in its successor, _The Magic Carpet_. Two other stories, which Kline
-considered rotten, I quickly canned--may they rest in peace."
-
-Frank Belknap Long, Jr., is now trying to invade the detective story
-market.... Here's hoping he matches the stride set by his pal, Donald
-Wandrei.... New York fans would do well to tune in on Alonzo Deen
-Cole's weird broadcasts, "The Witch's Tale," over WOR, and to "Tales
-of Terror," over WINS.... S. Gordon Gurwitt besides turning out weird
-stories, also writes detective yarns, and bears an amazing resemblance
-to Eddie Cantor.... Farnsworth Wright has never yet rejected a story
-on the grounds that it was too juvenile.... A. Merritt claims he sits
-down to write "only after I have exhausted myself of all possible
-excuses".... Arthur Sarsfield Ward, when asked why he used the
-pseudonym of Sax Rohmer for his writings, responded: "The reason why I
-use the name Sax Rohmer is as much a mystery to me as it is to you."
-
-Some Seabury Quinnformation: Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin
-story will be published in the January, 1935, issue of _Weird Tales_,
-and is entitled "Hands of the Dead." It deals with post-mortem
-hypnotism.... Quinn (known to _Weird Tales_ fans as the Old
-Marster--_not_ "Master") is working on a series introducing a new
-character, Thomas Eldridge Carter, a twenty-six year old investigator
-for the Grand Central Life Assurance Company. The series will deal with
-Carter's adventures in ferreting out the whys and wherefores of the
-deaths and disappearances of persons heavily insured by the company.
-Like all of Quinn's stories, these will have elements of weirdness, but
-will not contain supernatural elements.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-
-                          FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH
-
-                          by H. P. Lovecraft
-
-
-                              I. The Book
-
-    The place was dark and dusty and half-lost
-    In tangles of old alleys near the quays,
-    Reeking of strange things brought in from the seas,
-    And with queer curls of fog that west winds tossed.
-    Small lozenge panes, obscured by smoke and frost,
-    Just showed the books, in piles like twisted trees,
-    Rotting from floor to roof--congeries
-    Of crumbling elder lore at little cost.
-
-    I entered, charmed, and from a cobwebbed heap
-    Took up the nearest tome and thumbed it through,
-    Trembling at curious words that seemed to keep
-    Some secret, monstrous if one only knew,
-    Then, looking for some seller old in craft,
-    I could find nothing but a voice that laughed.
-
-                              II. Pursuit
-
-    I held the book beneath my coat, at pains
-    To hide the thing from sight in such a place;
-    Hurrying through the ancient harbour lanes
-    With often-turning head and nervous pace.
-    Dull, furtive windows in old tottering brick
-    Peered at me oddly as I hastened by,
-    And thinking what they sheltered, I grew sick
-    For a redeeming glimpse of clean blue sky.
-
-    No one had seen me take the thing--but still
-    A blank laugh echoed in my whirling head,
-    And I could guess what nighted worlds of ill
-    Lurked in that volume I had coveted.
-    The way grew strange--the walls alike and madding--
-    And far behind me, unseen feet were padding.
-
-(Note: These verses have never before been published.)
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-
-                       Beyond the Wall of Sleep
-
-                          by H. P. Lovecraft
-
-      "_I have an exposition of sleep come upon me_"--Shakespeare
-
-I have often wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect
-upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the
-obscure world to which they belong. Whilst the greater number of
-our nocturnal visions are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic
-reflections of our waking experiences--Freud to the contrary with his
-puerile symbolism--there are still a certain remainder whose immundane
-and ethereal character permits of no ordinary interpetation, and whose
-vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute
-glimpses into a sphere of mental existence no less important than
-physical life, yet separated from that life by an all but impassable
-barrier. From my experience I cannot doubt but that man, when lost
-to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and
-uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and
-of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after
-waking. From those blurred and fragmentary memories we may infer
-much, yet prove little. We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and
-vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant;
-and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend
-them. Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer
-life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the
-secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
-
-It was from a youthful reverie filled with speculations of this sort
-that I arose one afternoon in the winter of 1900-01, when to the state
-psychopathic institution in which I served as an interne was brought
-the man whose case has ever since haunted me so unceasingly. His name,
-as given on the records, was Joe Slater, or Slaader, and his appearance
-was that of the typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region; one of
-those strange, repellent scions of a primitive Colonial peasant stock
-whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of
-a little travelled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of
-barbaric degeneracy, rather than advance with their more fortunately
-placed brethren of the thickly settled districts. Among these odd folk,
-who correspond exactly to the decadent element of "white trash" in the
-south, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status
-is probably below that of any other section of the native American
-people.
-
-Joe Slater, who came to the institution in the vigilant custody of
-four state policemen, and who was described as a highly dangerous
-character, certainly presented no evidence of his perilous disposition
-when I first beheld him. Though well above the middle stature, and of
-somewhat brawny frame, he was given an absurd appearance of harmless
-stupidity by the pale, sleepy blueness of his small watery eyes, the
-scantiness of his neglected and never-shaven growth of yellow beard,
-and the listless drooping of his heavy nether lip. His age was unknown,
-since among his kind neither family records nor permanent family ties
-exist; but from the baldness of his head in front, and from the decayed
-condition of his teeth, the head surgeon wrote him down as a man of
-about forty.
-
-From the medical and court documents we learned all that could be
-gathered of his case: This man, a vagabond, hunter, and trapper, had
-always been strange in the eyes of his primitive associates. He had
-habitually slept at night beyond the ordinary time, and upon waking
-would often talk of unknown things in a manner so bizarre as to inspire
-fear even in the hearts of an unimaginative populace. Not that his form
-of language was at all unusual, for he never spoke save in the debased
-patois of his environment; but the tone and tenor of his utterances
-were of such mysterious wildness, that none might listen without
-apprehension. He himself was generally as terrified and baffled as his
-auditors, and within an hour after awakening would forget all that
-he had said, or at least all that had caused him to say what he did;
-relapsing into a bovine, half amiable normality like that of the other
-hill-dwellers.
-
-As Slater grew older, it appeared, his matutinal aberrations had
-gradually increased in frequency and violence; till about a month
-before his arrival at the institution had occurred the shocking
-tragedy which caused his arrest by the authorities. One day near noon,
-after a profound sleep begun in a whiskey debauch at about five of
-the previous afternoon, the man had roused himself most suddenly;
-with ululations so horrible and unearthly that they brought several
-neighbours to his cabin--a filthy sty where he dwelt with a family as
-indescribable as himself. Rushing out into the snow, he had flung his
-arms aloft and commenced a series of leaps directly upward in the air;
-the while shouting his determination to reach some "big, big cabin
-with brightness in the roof and walls and floor and the loud queer
-music far away." As two men of moderate size sought to restrain him,
-he had struggled with maniacal force and fury, screaming of his desire
-and need to find and kill a certain "thing that shines and shakes and
-laughs". At length, after temporarily felling one of his detainers
-with a sudden blow, he had flung himself upon the other in a daemonic
-ecstasy of blood-thirstiness, shrieking fiendishly that he would
-"jump high in the air and burn his way through anything that stopped
-him." Family and neighbours had now fled in a panic, and when the
-more courageous of them returned, Slater was gone, leaving behind an
-unrecognisable pulp-like thing that had been a living man but an hour
-before. None of mountaineers had dared to pursue him, and it is likely
-that they would have welcomed his death from the cold; but when several
-mornings later they heard his screams from a distant ravine they
-realised that he had somehow managed to survive, and that his removal
-in one way or another would be necessary. Then had followed an armed
-searching party, whose purpose (whatever it may have been originally)
-became that of a sheriff's posse after one of the seldom popular state
-troopers had by accident observed, then questioned, and finally joined
-the seekers.
-
-On the third day Slater was found unconscious in the hollow of a tree,
-and taken to the nearest gaol; where alienists from Albany examined him
-as soon as his senses returned. To them he told a simple story. He had,
-he said, gone to sleep one afternoon about sundown after drinking much
-liquor. He had awakened to find himself standing bloody-handed in the
-snow before his cabin, the mangled corpse of his neighbour Peter Slader
-at his feet. Horrified, he had taken to the woods in a vague effort to
-escape from the scene of what must have been his crime. Beyond these
-things he seemed to know nothing, nor could the expert questioning
-of his interrogators bring out a single additional fact. That night
-Slater slept quietly, and the next morning he wakened with no singular
-feature save a certain alteration of expression. Dr. Barnard, who had
-been watching the patient, thought he noticed in the pale blue eyes
-a certain gleam of peculiar quality; and in the flaccid lips an all
-but imperceptible tightening, as if of intelligent determination. But
-when questioned, Slater relapsed into the habitual vacancy of the
-mountaineer, and only reiterated what he had said on the preceding day.
-
-On the third morning occurred the first of the man's mental attacks.
-After some show of uneasiness in sleep, he burst forth into a frenzy so
-powerful that the combined efforts of four men were needed to bind him
-in a strait-jacket. The alienists listened with keen attention to his
-words, since their curiosity had been aroused to a high pitch by the
-suggestive yet mostly conflicting and incoherent stories of his family
-and neighbours. Slater raved for upward of fifteen minutes, babbling
-in his backwoods dialect of green edifices of light, oceans of space,
-strange music, and shadowy mountains and valleys. But most of all did
-he dwell upon some mysterious blazing entity that shook and laughed and
-mocked at him. This vast, vague personality seemed to have done him a
-terrible wrong, and to kill it in triumphant revenge was his paramount
-desire. In order to reach it, he said, he would soar through abysses
-of emptiness, _burning_ every obstacle that stood in his way. Thus
-ran his discourse, until with the greatest suddenness he ceased. The
-fire of madness died from his eyes, and in dull wonder he looked at
-his questioners and asked why he was bound. R. Barnard unbuckled the
-leather harness and did not restore it till night, when he succeeded in
-persuading Slater to don it of his own volition, for his own good. The
-man had now admitted that he sometimes talked queerly, though he knew
-not why.
-
-Within a week two more attacks appeared, but from them the doctors
-learned little. On the _source_ of Slater's visions they speculated at
-length, for since he could neither read nor write, and had apparently
-never heard a legend or fairy tale, his gorgeous imagery was quite
-inexplicable. That it could not come from any known myth or romance
-was made especially clear by the fact that the unfortunate lunatic
-expressed himself only in his own simple manner. He raved of things he
-did not understand and could not interpret; things which he claimed
-to have experienced, but which he could not have learned through any
-normal or connected narration. The alienists soon agreed that abnormal
-dreams were the foundation of the trouble; dreams whose vividness
-could for a time completely dominate the waking mind of this basically
-inferior man. With due formality Slater was tried for murder, acquitted
-on the ground of insanity, and committed to the institution wherein I
-held so humble a post.
-
-I have said that I am a constant speculator concerning dream life, and
-from this you may judge of the eagerness with which I applied myself
-to the study of the new patient as soon as I had fully ascertained
-the facts of his case. He seemed to sense a certain friendliness in
-me; born no doubt of the interest I could not conceal, and the gentle
-manner in which I questioned him. Not that he ever recognised me during
-his attacks, when I hung breathlessly upon his chaotic but cosmic
-word-pictures; but he knew me in his quiet hours, when he would sit
-by his barred window weaving baskets of straw and willow, and perhaps
-pining for the mountain freedom he could never again enjoy. His family
-never called to see him; probably it had found another temporary head,
-after the manner of decadent mountain folk.
-
-By degrees I commenced to feel an overwhelming wonder at the mad and
-fantastic conceptions of Joe Slater. The man himself was pitiably
-inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic
-visions, though described in a barbarous and disjointed jargon, were
-assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could
-conceive. How, I often asked myself, could the stolid imagination of a
-Catskill degenerate conjure up sights whose very possession argued a
-lurking spark of genius? How could any backwoods dullard have gained
-so much as an idea of those glittering realms of supernal radiance
-and space about which Slater ranted in his furious delirium? More and
-more I inclined to the belief that in the pitiful personality who
-cringed before me lay the disordered nucleus of something beyond my
-comprehension; something infinitely beyond the comprehension of my more
-experienced but less imaginative medical and scientific colleagues.
-
-And yet I could extract nothing definite from the man. The sum of all
-my investigation was, that in a kind of semi-corporeal dream life
-Slater wandered or floated through resplendent and prodigious valleys,
-meadows, gardens, cities, and palaces of light; in a region unbounded
-and unknown to man. That there he was no peasant or degenerate, but
-creature of importance and vivid life; moving proudly and dominantly,
-and checked only by a certain deadly enemy, who seemed to be a being of
-visible yet ethereal structure, and who did not appear to be of human
-shape, since Slater never referred to it as a _man_, or as aught save a
-_thing_. This _thing_ had done Slater some hideous but unnamed wrong,
-which the maniac (if maniac he were) yearned to avenge. From the manner
-in which Slater alluded to their dealings, I judged that he and the
-luminous _thing_ had met on equal terms; that in his dream existence
-the man was himself a luminous _thing_ of the same race as his enemy.
-This impression was sustained by his frequent references to _flying
-through space_ and _burning_ all that impeded his progress. Yet these
-conceptions were formulated in rustic words wholly inadequate to convey
-them, a circumstance which drove me to the conclusion that if a true
-dream world indeed existed, oral language was not its medium for the
-transmission of thought. Could it be that the dream soul inhabiting
-this inferior body was desperately struggling to speak things which the
-simple and halting tongue of dullness could not utter? Could it be that
-I was face to face with intellectual emanations which would explain
-the mystery if I could but learn to discover and read them? I did not
-tell the older physicians of these things, for middle age is sceptical,
-cynical, and disinclined to accept new ideas. Besides, the head of the
-institution had but lately warned me in his paternal way that I was
-overworking; that my mind needed a rest.
-
-It had long been my belief that human thought consists basically of
-atomic or molecular motion, convertible into ether waves of radiant
-energy like heat, light, and electricity. This belief had early led me
-to contemplate the possibility of telepathy or mental communication
-by means of suitable apparatus, and I had in my college days prepared
-a set of transmitting and receiving instruments somewhat similar to
-the cumbrous devices employed in wireless telegraphy at that crude,
-pre-radio period. These I had tested with a fellow-student; but
-achieving no result, had soon packed them away with other scientific
-odds and ends for possible future use. Now, in my intense desire to
-probe into the dream life of Joe Slater, I sought these instruments
-again; and spent several days in repairing them for action. When they
-were complete once more I missed no opportunity for their trial. At
-each outburst of Slater's violence, I would fit the transmitter to
-his forehead and the receiver to my own; constantly making delicate
-adjustments for various hypothetical wave-lengths of intellectual
-energy. I had but little notion of how the thought-impressions would,
-if successfully conveyed, arouse an intelligent response in my brain;
-but I felt certain that I could detect and interpret them. Accordingly
-I continued my experiments, though informing no one of their nature.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-It was on the twenty-first of February, 1901, that the thing occurred.
-As I look back across the years I realise how unreal it seems; and
-sometimes half-wonder if old Dr. Fenton was not right when he charged
-it all to my excited imagination. I recall that he listened with
-great kindness and patience when I told him, but afterward gave me
-a nerve-powder and arranged for the half-year's vacation on which I
-departed the next week. That fateful night I was wildly agitated and
-perturbed, for despite the excellent care he had received, Joe Slater
-was unmistakably dying. Perhaps it was his mountain freedom that he
-missed, or perhaps the turmoil in his brain had grown too acute for
-his rather sluggish physique; but at all events the flame of vitality
-flickered low in the decadent body. He was drowsy near the end, and as
-darkness fell he dropped off into a troubled sleep. I did not strap
-on the strait-jacket as was customary when he slept, since I saw that
-he was too feeble to be dangerous, even if he woke in mental disorder
-once more before passing away. But I did place upon his head and mine
-the two ends of my cosmic "radio" hoping against hope for a first and
-last message from the dream world in the brief time remaining. In the
-cell with us was one nurse, a mediocre fellow who did not understand
-the purpose of the apparatus, or think to inquire into my course. As
-the hours wore on I saw his head droop awkwardly in sleep, but I did
-not disturb him. I myself, lulled by the rhythmical breathing of the
-healthy and the dying man, must have nodded a little later.
-
-The sound of weird lyric melody was what aroused me. Chords,
-vibrations, and harmonic ecstasies echoed passionately on every
-hand; while on my ravished sight burst the stupendous spectacle of
-ultimate beauty. Walls, columns, and architraves of living fire blazed
-effulgently around the spot where I seemed to float in air; extending
-upward to an infinitely high vaulted dome of indescribable splendour.
-Blending with this display of palatial magnificence, or rather,
-supplanting it at times in kaleidoscopic rotation, were glimpses of
-wide plains and graceful valleys, high mountains and inviting grottoes;
-covered with every lovely attribute of scenery which my delighted eye
-could conceive of, yet formed wholly of some glowing, ethereal plastic
-entity, which in consistency partook as much of spirit as of matter. As
-I gazed, I perceived that my own brain held the key to these enchanting
-metamorphoses; for each vista which appeared to me, was the one my
-changing mind most wished to behold. Amidst this elysian realm I dwelt
-not as a stranger, for each sight and sound was familiar to me; just as
-it had been for uncounted aeons of eternity before, and would be for
-like eternities to come.
-
-Then the resplendent aura of my brother of light drew near and held
-colloquy with me, soul to soul, with silent and perfect interchange
-of thought. The hour was one of approaching triumph, for was not my
-fellow-being escaping at last from a degrading periodic bondage;
-escaping forever, and preparing to follow the accursed oppressor even
-unto the uttermost fields of ether, that upon it might be wrought a
-flaming cosmic vengeance which would shake the spheres? We floated
-thus for a little time, when I perceived a slight blurring and
-fading of the objects around us, as though some force were recalling
-me to earth--where I least wished to go. The form near me seemed to
-feel a change also, for it gradually brought its discourse towards a
-conclusion, and itself prepared to quit the scene; fading from my sight
-at a rate somewhat less rapid than that of the other objects. A few
-more thoughts were exchanged, and I knew that the luminous one and I
-were being recalled to bondage, though for my brother of light it would
-be the last time. The sorry planet shell being well-nigh spent, in less
-than an hour my fellow would be free to pursue the oppressor along the
-Milky Way and past the hither stars to the very confines of infinity.
-
-A well-defined shock separates my final impression of the fading
-scene of light from my sudden and somewhat shamefaced awakening and
-straightening up in my chair as I saw the dying figure on the couch
-move hesitantly. Joe Slater was indeed awaking, though probably for the
-last time. As I looked more closely, I saw that in the sallow cheeks
-shone spots of colour which had never before been present. The lips,
-too, seemed unusual; being tightly compressed, as if by the force of a
-stronger character than had been Slater's. The whole face finally began
-to grow tense, and the head turned restlessly with closed eyes. I did
-not rouse the sleeping nurse, but readjusted the slightly disarranged
-headbands of my telepathic "radio" intent to catch any parting message
-the dreamer might have to deliver. All at once the head turned sharply
-in my direction and the eyes fell open, causing me to stare in blank
-amazement at what I beheld. The man who had been Joe Slater, the
-Catskill decadent, was now gazing at me with a pair of luminous,
-expanding eyes whose blue seemed subtly to have deepened. Neither mania
-nor degeneracy was visible in that gaze, and I felt beyond a doubt that
-I was viewing a face behind which lay an active mind of high order.
-
-At this juncture my brain became aware of a steady external influence
-operating upon it. I closed my eyes to concentrate my thoughts more
-profoundly, and was rewarded by the positive knowledge that _my
-long-sought mental message had come at last_. Each transmitted idea
-formed rapidly in my mind, and though no actual language was employed,
-my habitual association of conception and expression was so great that
-I seemed to be receiving the message in ordinary English.
-
-"_Joe Slater is dead_," came the soul-petrifying voice or agency from
-beyond the wall of sleep. My opened eyes sought the couch of pain in
-curious horror, but the blue eyes were still calmly gazing, and the
-countenance was still intelligently animated. "He is better dead, for
-he was unfit to bear the active intellect of cosmic entity. His gross
-body could not undergo the needed adjustments between ethereal life
-and planet life. He was too much of an animal, too little a man; yet
-it is through his deficiency that you have come to discover me, for
-the cosmic and planet souls rightly should never meet. He has been my
-torment and diurnal prison for forty-two of your terrestrial years.
-I am an entity like that which you yourself become in the freedom of
-dreamless sleep, I am your brother of light, and have floated with
-you in the effulgent valleys. It is not permitted me to tell your
-waking earth-self of your real self, but we are all roamers of vast
-spaces and travellers in many ages. Next year I may be dwelling in the
-Egypt which you call ancient, or in the cruel empire of Tsan Chan
-which is to come three thousand years hence. You and I have drifted to
-the worlds that reel about the red Arcturus, and dwelt in the bodies
-of the insect-philosophers that crawl proudly over the fourth moon
-of Jupiter. How little does the earth-self know life and its extent!
-How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquillity! Of
-the oppressor I cannot speak. You on earth have unwittingly felt its
-distant presence--you who without knowing idly gave the blinking beacon
-the name of _Algol, the Daemon-Star_. It is to meet and conquer the
-oppressor that I have vainly striven for aeons, held back by bodily
-encumbrances. Tonight I go as a Nemesis bearing just and blazingly
-cataclysmic vengeance. _Watch me in the sky close by the Daemon-Star._
-I cannot speak longer, for the body of Joe Slater grows cold and
-rigid, and the coarse brains are ceasing to vibrate as I wish. You
-have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend
-on this planet--the only soul to sense and seek for me within the
-repellent form which lies on this couch. We shall meet again--perhaps
-in the shining mists of Orion's Sword, perhaps on a bleak plateau in
-prehistoric Asia. Perhaps in unremembered dreams tonight; perhaps in
-some other form an aeon hence, when the solar system shall have been
-swept away."
-
-At this point the thought-waves abruptly ceased, and the pale eyes of
-the dreamer--or can I say dead man?--commenced to glaze fishily. In
-a half-stupor I crossed over to the couch and felt of his wrist, but
-found it cold, stiff, and pulseless. The sallow cheeks paled again,
-and the thick lips fell open, disclosing the repulsively rotten fangs
-of the degenerate Joe Slater. I shivered, pulled a blanket over the
-hideous face, and awakened the nurse. Then I left the cell and went
-silently to my room. I had an instant and unaccountable craving for a
-sleep whose dreams I should not remember.
-
-The climax? What plain tale of science can boast of such a rhetorical
-effect? I have merely set down certain things appealing to me as facts,
-allowing you to construe them as you will. As I have already admitted,
-my superior, old Dr. Fenton, denies the reality of everything I have
-related. He vows that I was broken down with nervous strain, and badly
-in need of the long vacation on full pay which he so generously gave
-me. He assures me on his professional honour that Joe Slater was but
-a low-grade paranoic, whose fantastic notions must have come from the
-crude hereditary folk-tales which circulate in even the most decadent
-of communities. All this he tells me--yet I cannot forget what I saw
-in the sky on the night after Slater died. Lest you think me a biased
-witness, another pen must add this final testimony, which may perhaps
-supply the climax you expect. I will quote the following account of the
-star _Nova Persei_ verbatim from the pages of that eminent astronomical
-authority, Prof. Garrett P. Serviss:
-
-    "On February 22, 1901, a marvelous new star was discovered by Dr.
-    Anderson of Edinburgh, _not very far from Algol_. No star had been
-    visible at that point before. Within 24 hours the stranger had
-    become so bright that it outshone Capella. In a week or two it had
-    visibly faded, and in the course of a few months it was hardly
-    discernible with the naked eye."
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