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  1. Back to the Beast
    1. (From the Smith City Mirror, June 26, 1927)
    2. (From the Smith City Mirror, June 28, 1927)
    3. (From the Smith City Mirror, June 29, 1937)
    4. (Extracts from the papers given to police by James Brock as the journal of Dr. James Everett Lawlor)
  2. The Invading Asteroid
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
  3. The Golgotha Dancers
  4. The Hairy Ones Shall Dance
    1. Foreword
    2. I
    3. II
    4. III
    5. IV
    6. V
    7. VI
    8. VII
    9. VIII
    10. IX
    11. X
    12. XI
    13. XII
    14. XIII
    15. XIV
    16. XV
  5. The Black Drama Powers, passions, all I see in other beings, Have been to me as rain unto the sands Since that all-nameless hour. Lord Byron: Manfred
    1. Foreword
    2. I
    3. II
    4. III
    5. IV
    6. V
    7. VI
    8. VII
    9. VIII
    10. IX
    11. X
    12. XI
    13. XII
    14. XIII
    15. XIV
    16. XV
  6. Fearful Rock
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
    8. VIII
    9. IX
    10. X
    11. XI
    12. XII
    13. XIII
    14. XIV
    15. XV
  7. The Valley Was Still
  8. The Witch’s Cat
  9. The Song of the Slaves
  10. The Dreadful Rabbits “… there are a hundred things one has to know, which we understand and you don’t, as yet. I mean passwords, and signs, and sayings which have power and effect, and plants you carry in your pocket, and verses you repeat, and dodges and tricks you practise; all simple enough when you know them, but they’ve got to be known. …” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
  11. Bratton’s Idea
  12. The Devil’s Asteroid
  13. It All Came True in the Woods When the Horror passing speech Hunted us along, Each laid hold on each, and each Found the other strong. In the teeth of things forbid And reason overthrown, Helen stood by me, she did, Helen all alone. Rudyard Kipling
  14. The Half-Haunted I went into a house, and it wasn’t a house. A. A. Milne
  15. The Liers in Wait Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. Proffered Epitaph on Charles II John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)
  16. Venus Enslaved
  17. Coven … They pledge themselves to frequent the midnight assemblies. These conventicles or covens were bands or companies of witches, composed of men and women, apparently under the discipline of an officer. … History of Witchcraft and Demonology, Montague Summers
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    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
  18. Warrior of Two Worlds
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
  19. All Were Monsters
  20. Half Around Pluto
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Short Fiction

Manly Wade Wellman

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Back to the Beast

(From the Smith City Mirror, June 26, 1927)

Police are searching today for Dr. J. E. Lawlor, well-known physician and scientist, following a report from his secretary, James Brock, that he had disappeared from his home at 2100 Van Ness Avenue.

According to Brock, Dr. Lawlor locked himself into his private laboratory twelve days ago, ordering his servants not to disturb him, and to send food down by means of a dumbwaiter. As he had followed this plan several times before while working on experiments, Brock complied with his request. The time set was ten days and when there had been no response from the laboratory during the two days following the elapse of this period, Brock feared some accident and, with the help of Georges Dmitri, Dr. Lawlor’s cook, and Emil Bonner, his chauffeur, he forced the door this morning and found that the doctor was gone.

A weird angle is added to the incident by the dead body of a large ape which Brock found in a corner of the disordered laboratory. Although Dr. Lawlor was known to be interested in natural history and to have conducted several experiments with animals recently, Brock stated that he was sure the ape was not in the laboratory when it was closed twelve days ago. The table was covered with papers, which have been turned over to the police. Brock, Dmitri and Bonner are held for questioning by Chief of Police John Walton.

Dr. Lawlor has no immediate family. A brother, Stanley Lawlor, of Topeka, Kansas, has been notified.

(From the Smith City Mirror, June 28, 1927)

Attempts to determine the species of the ape found dead in the laboratory of Dr. J. E. Lawlor, who disappeared last Saturday, were unsuccessful when Professor F. W. Baylor, head of the natural science department of the state university, said today that he had never seen such a creature before.

“There are eight kinds of anthropoid apes known to science,” said Professor Baylor, “but this ape belongs to none of them. It has some of the characteristics of several, but resembles no single kind greatly. It is either a freak or of a species unknown until now.”

Professor Baylor has ordered the animal embalmed and intends to send it to fellow-students of natural history in Chicago.

(From the Smith City Mirror, June 29, 1937)

James Brock, private secretary of Dr. J. E. Lawlor, 2100 Van Ness Avenue, was placed under arrest today to face charges of kidnapping and possibly murder of his employer last Saturday.

The arrest took place following the reading of papers purporting to be a journal of an experiment performed by the doctor, which Brock turned over to the police upon his employer’s disappearance. Brock had been held for questioning, but was given his liberty Saturday.

The contents of the journal were not made public, but Chief John Walton described them as “preposterous and unbelievable, a forgery by Brock to cover a very evident crime.”

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