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Acolyte, vol 1, issue 3, whole 3, Spring 1943
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Tenebrosa; next, Tartarus; after that, Terra Oblivonis; then Gehenna; and then Stagnum Ignis.' "'Of course,' acquiesced Lake, with an ugly sneer. "'Don't be frightened, but he's alive! I think they'll make him mad. It is a frightful plight. Two angels buried him alive in Vallambrossa by night! I saw it, standing among the lotus and hemlock. A negro came to me, a black clergyman with white eyes, and remained beside me; and the angels imprisoned Mark! They put him on duty forty days and forty nights with his ear to the river listening for voices... and when it was over we blessed them...and the clergyman walked with me a long while, to-and-fro upon the earth, telling me the wonders of the abyss.' "'And is it from the abyss, sir, he writes his letters?' enquired the Town Clerk, with a wink at Lake. "'Yes, yes, very diligent; it behoves him, and his hair is always standing straight on his head for fear. But he'll be sent up again at last, a thousand, a hundred, ten, and one, black marble steps, and then it will be the other one's turn. So it was prophesied by the black magician.'" -oOo- In her introduction to "Great Short Stories of Horror", Dorothy Sayers says, "Melodramatic, but a writer of real literary attainment, and gifted with a sombre power which has never been equalled in painting the ghastly and the macabre, is Sheridan Le Fanu. Like Poe, he has the gift of investing the most mechanical of plots with an atmosphere of almost unbearable horror." A fitting tribute to a great writer. -oOo- (Note: This is the first of a series. The next will appear in the June 15 issue of "The Acolyte". F.T.L.) ----ooOoo---- ANGKOR THOM A WORD PICTURE by Virginia "Nanek" Anderson -oOo- The elephants drowse in the shadow of fantastic carvings. The monkeys play on balustrades of seven-headed cobras. The mud-dauber builds in the galleries of the central temple. Five ornate towers shimmer in the heat; Vast pillars of strangely carven stone moulder in the jungle. The mystery of forgotten cities broods on the edge of the Tonle Sap Unsolved. The pale ones come in great numbers....... They peer and gaze and pass beneath the benign countenance of Siva. They gape at the sadistic leer of the eastern face upon the south gate; They depart out of the jungle that yearns with outstretched arms, There are no human voices, either or vocal cord or of instrument. The wild elephant trumpets somewhere, afar off.... The carven women on the walls seem alive. ----ooOoo---- ADVERTISEMENT: FOR SALE OR TRADE A number of back issues of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, and several books by Merritt, Haggard, and Kline. Will sell for cash, or will trade for back issues of Weird Tales. Offer #1313, c/o "The Acolyte" -- 20 --
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Tenebrosa; next, Tartarus; after that, Terra Oblivonis; then Gehenna; and then Stagnum Ignis.' "'Of course,' acquiesced Lake, with an ugly sneer. "'Don't be frightened, but he's alive! I think they'll make him mad. It is a frightful plight. Two angels buried him alive in Vallambrossa by night! I saw it, standing among the lotus and hemlock. A negro came to me, a black clergyman with white eyes, and remained beside me; and the angels imprisoned Mark! They put him on duty forty days and forty nights with his ear to the river listening for voices... and when it was over we blessed them...and the clergyman walked with me a long while, to-and-fro upon the earth, telling me the wonders of the abyss.' "'And is it from the abyss, sir, he writes his letters?' enquired the Town Clerk, with a wink at Lake. "'Yes, yes, very diligent; it behoves him, and his hair is always standing straight on his head for fear. But he'll be sent up again at last, a thousand, a hundred, ten, and one, black marble steps, and then it will be the other one's turn. So it was prophesied by the black magician.'" -oOo- In her introduction to "Great Short Stories of Horror", Dorothy Sayers says, "Melodramatic, but a writer of real literary attainment, and gifted with a sombre power which has never been equalled in painting the ghastly and the macabre, is Sheridan Le Fanu. Like Poe, he has the gift of investing the most mechanical of plots with an atmosphere of almost unbearable horror." A fitting tribute to a great writer. -oOo- (Note: This is the first of a series. The next will appear in the June 15 issue of "The Acolyte". F.T.L.) ----ooOoo---- ANGKOR THOM A WORD PICTURE by Virginia "Nanek" Anderson -oOo- The elephants drowse in the shadow of fantastic carvings. The monkeys play on balustrades of seven-headed cobras. The mud-dauber builds in the galleries of the central temple. Five ornate towers shimmer in the heat; Vast pillars of strangely carven stone moulder in the jungle. The mystery of forgotten cities broods on the edge of the Tonle Sap Unsolved. The pale ones come in great numbers....... They peer and gaze and pass beneath the benign countenance of Siva. They gape at the sadistic leer of the eastern face upon the south gate; They depart out of the jungle that yearns with outstretched arms, There are no human voices, either or vocal cord or of instrument. The wild elephant trumpets somewhere, afar off.... The carven women on the walls seem alive. ----ooOoo---- ADVERTISEMENT: FOR SALE OR TRADE A number of back issues of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, and several books by Merritt, Haggard, and Kline. Will sell for cash, or will trade for back issues of Weird Tales. Offer #1313, c/o "The Acolyte" -- 20 --
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