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...short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...
...artists delicately tuned their queer looking instruments to the note A from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...Eeriest paradox of all was Wall Street. A capital-goods boom was under way with almost no help at all from private investment. The corporate securities markets did $1,666,805,000 of refundings during eleven months of 1940, but raised only $660,799,000 of new money. As the year ended, Wall Street, its best barometer, was huddled in the storm cellar with Confidence...
Finally a car stopped. On the other side of the bayou, another pulled up. The road was blocked. A few drenched survivors of the eeriest U.S. highway tragedy of 1939 joined Truckman Lewis on the road. Later divers and wreckers took his truck and ten pleasure cars from the receding stream, recovered 14 bodies-men, women and one infant. Some had smashed through windows to drown in the flood. Others had been trapped where they sat. One woman had died half out of the back window of a sedan which had landed on its nose on the bayou bottom...
...high point of his African mountain climbing was a six-day ascent of the mysterious Ruwenzori Range in Uganda, anciently called the Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori...