The Friendship of Mortals by Audrey Driscoll

Author:Audrey Driscoll
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alchemy, doctors, librarians, corpses, herbert west, miskatonic university, arkham, first person narrator, supernatural novels, psychological novels, raising the dead, reanimator
Publisher: Audrey Driscoll

In 1917, with the United States finally in the War, a great change took place in Arkham. Suddenly, many of the younger men were gone, their jobs taken by women. My assistant Linton Adams left for France, along with a few other men from the Library. Fortunately, the cataloguing of the Quarrington Collection was by then nearly complete.

I saw less of Sarah Enright, as she was kept very busy at the hospital with so many nurses overseas. But I found myself in demand socially, much to my surprise. With the general shortage of younger men, anything in trousers that was even semi-articulate was a desirable property. As the War progressed and American soldiers began to return with various disabilities, I was more than once taken for a returnee and my limp the result of a war injury. Admiring women asked me to tell them how it happened. I am sorry to admit that on one or two occasions I did just that, fabricating a lurid tale from bits of information gleaned from newspapers and letters from Alma and West. The latter, I thought, would have been much amused.

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