The Complete Works. Stanley G. Weinbaum

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СКАЧАТЬ smile she flashed at him had in it a touch of heaven. "Yes," she said exultantly, but instantly a cloud chased away the smile. "But don't you remember what sort of children women bear who've been too long in the ray? Would you like to be father to a little amphimorph?"

      He shuddered. "Thank you. We'll do as we are then."

      She burst suddenly into laughter almost as mocking as her old self. Then she was as suddenly serious, tender.

      "Tom," she murmured, "I won't tease you. That will be my gift to you. Martin Sair can do what you wish. There is some leeway to the process—enough, perhaps, for a single time. My permanent age is twenty now; it will be twenty–five then. But who in all the world could have anticipated that the Black Flame would assume motherhood—and like it? Tom, that's my gift to you—life! Kiss me!"

      For a moment of ecstasy he felt her lips quiver against his.

      "Two boys and a girl!" she murmured. "Won't we, Tom?"

      "And can Martin Sair," he asked ironically, "fix that for us, too?"

      "Of course. Two boys like you, Tom." She was suddenly dreamy–eyed.

      "But not a girl like you."

      "Why not?"

      "Because," Tom Connor laughed, "I don't think society could stand a second Black Flame!"

      The Dark Other

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Table of Contents

       1. Pure Horror

       2. Science of Mind

       3. Psychiatrics of Genius

       4. The Transfiguration

       5. A Fantasy of Fear

       6. A Question of Science

       7. The Red Eyes Return

       8. Gateway to Evil

       9. Descent into Avernus

       10. Rescue from Abaddon

       11. Wreckage

       12. Letter from Lucifer

       13. Indecision

       14. Bizarre Explanation

       15. A Modern Mr. Hyde

       16. Possessed

       17. Witch-Doctor

       18. Vanished

       19. Man or Monster?

       20. The Assignation

       21. A Question of Synapses

       22. Doctor and Devil

       23. Werewolf

       24. The Dark Other

       25. The Demon Lover

       26. The Depths

       27. Two in Hell

       28. Lunar Omen

       29. Scopolamine for Satan

       30. The Demon Free

       31. "Not Humanly Possible"

       32. Revelation

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       Pure Horror

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      "That isn't what I mean," said Nicholas Devine, turning his eyes on his companion. "I mean pure horror in the sense of horror detached from experience, apart from reality. Not just a formless fear, which implies either fear of something that might happen, or fear of unknown dangers. Do you see what I mean?"

      "Of course," said Pat, letting her eyes wander over the black expanse of night-dark Lake Michigan. "Certainly I see what you mean but I don't quite understand how you'd do it. It sounds—well, difficult."

      She gazed at his lean profile, clear-cut against the distant light. He had turned, staring thoughtfully over the lake, idly fingering the levers on the steering wheel before him. The girl wondered a little at her feeling of contentment; she, Patricia Lane, satisfied to spend an evening in nothing more СКАЧАТЬ