Clarkesworld Magazine - Issue 18 by www.clarkesworldmagazine.com & Jay Lake & Stephen Dedman & Ekaterina Sedia

Author:www.clarkesworldmagazine.com & Jay Lake & Stephen Dedman & Ekaterina Sedia [Lake, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction magazine
Publisher: Wyrm Publishing
Published: 2008-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Poe said it better than I could, of course: And the evening closed in upon me thus — and then the darkness came, and tarried, and went — and the day again dawned — and the mists of a second night were now gathering around — and still I sat motionless in that solitary room — and still I sat buried in meditation — and still the phantasma of the teeth maintained its terrible ascendancy, as with the most vivid and hideous distinctness it floated about amid the changing lights and shadows of the chamber.

Of course, I didn’t spend all of that time motionless or meditating: I wasn’t able to sleep for long without dreaming of adding those teeth to my collection, but I made the effort. I remembered to eat, and wash, and while I didn’t need to leave the house, the phone and fax machine was never silent for very long: I had another two films in pre-production and one in post, so I had plenty to occupy my time if not my mind. But I kept returning to the library and staring at the treasures of my collection. The teeth, if I bought them, would have to go in the safe: if they were fake, then the fewer people who knew I had bought them and been fooled, the better. But if they were real, the idea of them belonging to someone else was unbearable.

I picked up a collection of Poe stories, and leafed through it, hoping he would give me an answer.

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