The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK ™, Vol. 4: Nictzin Dyalhis by Nictzin Dyalhis

Author:Nictzin Dyalhis [Dyalhis, Nictzin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: fantasy, horror, weird tales, short stories, adventure
ISBN: 9781479405633
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

AFTERWORD

I retired from business. I have money enough and more than I shall ever use. I made a will, leaving everything to that kindly little maid who also serves. No one else had ever manifested any regard for me. Yet—she had “prayed”.

A week ago I awoke from out a sound slumber. The room was so black that there might as well have been no room. There came a soft gleam of radiance! Clearly against the blackness, I saw the Silver One herself. A question passed from my mind to hers.

“Not yet,” came her gentle, pitying reply. “It is another than I who will come—even as he said.”

“Tell me,” I implored. “May I write these matters out for the dwellers of earth to read?”

“You may—if it be your wish,” she consented.

“When shall I—” I recommenced, but she shook her head in negation, and I did not finish that query. She smiled and was gone! But I lay awake awhile, staring into the darkness; and as I stared, a vision formed.

I saw a small, barren-looking planet, as yet scarcely cooled, whereon dwarfish, distorted creatures, low in the scale of evolution, yet strangely aspiring; strove ever with a race of giants, malignant, brutish, stolid, stupid.

But what it was they strove for; or what part I was to take in their affairs—I saw not then, nor do I know as yet.

Only, I wait. Wait, that I may once again serve—

And, somehow, I do not think my waiting will be very long!

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