The Black Book by Peter A. Worthy

Author:Peter A. Worthy [Worthy, Peter A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Issue #2
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The London news made much of the strange disappearance of famous author Colin Gilman. Fanciful theories circulated wildly. Even the relatively sober Times suggested the disappearance was part of a hoax designed to heighten public interest in a new book the author must have written about flying saucers. No doubt he himself 61

Searight

would turn up hale and hardy, claiming to have ridden in one. The tabloids framed with lurid color shots of naked women a supposedly "inside" report that poor Gilman had met a bad end while researching another of his sex crime novels.

Allen Enslin and Dr. Phineas each wondered which report to credit, though both had inklings that something far stranger might have happened. But all such news-print rumors only caused the old caretaker of the Church of the Ophite Gnosis to smile. It was a poor world whose wildest fancies paled next to the truth. Clutching the latest of the news editions in one hand, with the other he retrieved a crumpled note brought to him by secret means. In it he was pleased to read that one who had been known as Colin Gilman now sported in the pale currents of unguessed grottos in the serene company of souls untroubled by the degradations of hot mammal blood. Always a loner, he now rejoiced to be an outsider among those who still claimed the name and heritage of man.

The Sealed Casket

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.