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diff --git a/old/64940-0.txt b/old/64940-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0208512..0000000 --- a/old/64940-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1274 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 2, October -1934, by Charles D. Hornig - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 2, October 1934 - The Fan's Own Magazine - -Author: Charles D. Hornig - -Release Date: March 27, 2021 [eBook #64940] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** 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_. 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Hornig</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: March 27, 2021 [eBook #64940]</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FANTASY FAN, VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 1934 ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/title.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - - -<p class="ph1">[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any<br /> -evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>OUR READERS SAY</h3> - - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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' <i>written</i> by Jasper John and <i>published</i> 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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>WITHIN THE CIRCLE<br /> -by F. Lee Baldwin</h3> - -<p>At one time Forrest Ackerman had a complete collection of <i>Ghost -Stories</i>—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."</p> - -<p>Farnsworth Wright is a former music critic of <i>The Chicago American</i>.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>Richard Ely Morse is the son of an Amherst professor and an assistant -librarian at Princeton.</p> - -<p>Louis C. Smith of Oakland, Calif. is a collector of weird and fantastic -books and has a library of over two hundred volumes.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="ph1">WEIRD TALES<br /> -is the only magazine on the market today<br /> -presenting really literary weird<br /> -fiction—masterpieces of the macabre<br /> -and unearthly. Boost it and help its<br /> -circulation by securing new readers<br /> -whenever you can.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="ph1">Subscribe to<br /> -THE FANTASY FAN</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE</h2> - -<h3>by H. P. Lovecraft</h3> - -<p class="ph1">Part Thirteen</p> - -<p class="ph1">(copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook)</p> - -<p class="ph1">VI. Spectral Literature on the Continent</p> - -<p>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 -<i>Undine</i>, (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 -<i>Treatise on Elemental Sprites</i>.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>Not so well known as <i>Undine</i>, but remarkable for its convincing -realism and freedom from Gothic stock devices, is the <i>Amber Witch</i> 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 <i>The Amber Witch</i> as an actual occurrence -of the seventeenth century!</p> - -<p>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 -<i>The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Alranae</i>, and short stories like <i>The -Spider</i> contain distinctive qualities which raise them to a classic -level.</p> - -<p>But France as well as Germany has been active in the realm of -weirdness. Victor Hugo, in such tales as <i>Hans of Iceland</i>, and Balzac, -in <i>The Wild Ass's Skin</i>, <i>Seraphita</i>, and <i>Louis Lambert</i>, 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 <i>Atavar</i>, <i>The Foot of -the Mummy</i>, and <i>Clarimonde</i> display glimpses of forbidden vistas that -allure, tantalise, and sometimes horrify; whilst the Egyptian visions -evoked in <i>One of Cleopatra's Nights</i> 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 <i>The Temptation of St. -Anthony</i>, 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 <i>Venus of Ille</i> presents in terse -and convincing prose the same ancient statue-bride theme which Thomas -Moore cast in ballad form in <i>The Ring</i>.</p> - -<p>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 <i>The Horla</i> 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 <i>Who Knows?</i>, <i>The Spectre, He</i>, -<i>The Diary of a Madman</i>, <i>The White Wolf</i>, <i>On the River</i>, and the -grisly verse entitled <i>Horror</i>.</p> - -<p class="ph1">(Continued Next Month)</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>THE FAVORITE WEIRD STORIES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT<br /> -(Courtesy of H. Koenig)</h3> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>WEIRD WHISPERINGS<br /> -by Schwartz and Weisinger</h3> - -<p>Rumor had it that for several years Farnsworth Wright, editor of <i>Weird -Tales</i>, 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 <i>Weird Tales</i> in 1924, but I wrote stories -for <i>Weird Tales</i> 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 <i>Oriental Stories</i>, and the other -in its successor, <i>The Magic Carpet</i>. Two other stories, which Kline -considered rotten, I quickly canned—may they rest in peace."</p> - -<p>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."</p> - -<p>Some Seabury Quinnformation: Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin -story will be published in the January, 1935, issue of <i>Weird Tales</i>, -and is entitled "Hands of the Dead." It deals with post-mortem -hypnotism.... Quinn (known to <i>Weird Tales</i> fans as the Old -Marster—<i>not</i> "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.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH</h2> - -<h3>by H. P. Lovecraft</h3> - - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent8">I. The Book</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">The place was dark and dusty and half-lost</div> - <div class="verse">In tangles of old alleys near the quays,</div> - <div class="verse">Reeking of strange things brought in from the seas,</div> - <div class="verse">And with queer curls of fog that west winds tossed.</div> - <div class="verse">Small lozenge panes, obscured by smoke and frost,</div> - <div class="verse">Just showed the books, in piles like twisted trees,</div> - <div class="verse">Rotting from floor to roof—congeries</div> - <div class="verse">Of crumbling elder lore at little cost.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">I entered, charmed, and from a cobwebbed heap</div> - <div class="verse">Took up the nearest tome and thumbed it through,</div> - <div class="verse">Trembling at curious words that seemed to keep</div> - <div class="verse">Some secret, monstrous if one only knew,</div> - <div class="verse">Then, looking for some seller old in craft,</div> - <div class="verse">I could find nothing but a voice that laughed.</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent8">II. Pursuit</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">I held the book beneath my coat, at pains</div> - <div class="verse">To hide the thing from sight in such a place;</div> - <div class="verse">Hurrying through the ancient harbour lanes</div> - <div class="verse">With often-turning head and nervous pace.</div> - <div class="verse">Dull, furtive windows in old tottering brick</div> - <div class="verse">Peered at me oddly as I hastened by,</div> - <div class="verse">And thinking what they sheltered, I grew sick</div> - <div class="verse">For a redeeming glimpse of clean blue sky.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">No one had seen me take the thing—but still</div> - <div class="verse">A blank laugh echoed in my whirling head,</div> - <div class="verse">And I could guess what nighted worlds of ill</div> - <div class="verse">Lurked in that volume I had coveted.</div> - <div class="verse">The way grew strange—the walls alike and madding—</div> - <div class="verse">And far behind me, unseen feet were padding.</div> -</div></div> - -<p>(Note: These verses have never before been published.)</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>Beyond the Wall of Sleep</h2> - -<h3>by H. P. Lovecraft</h3> - -<p class="ph1">"<i>I have an exposition of sleep come upon me</i>"—Shakespeare</p> - - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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, <i>burning</i> 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.</p> - -<p>Within a week two more attacks appeared, but from them the doctors -learned little. On the <i>source</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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 <i>man</i>, or as aught save a -<i>thing</i>. This <i>thing</i> 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 <i>thing</i> had met on equal terms; that in his dream existence -the man was himself a luminous <i>thing</i> of the same race as his enemy. -This impression was sustained by his frequent references to <i>flying -through space</i> and <i>burning</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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 <i>my -long-sought mental message had come at last</i>. 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.</p> - -<p>"<i>Joe Slater is dead</i>," 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 <i>Algol, the Daemon-Star</i>. 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. <i>Watch me in the sky close by the Daemon-Star.</i> -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."</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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. 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