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...Author. Like his subject, Author O'Neill is something of a mystic, interested in spiritualism and the Society for Psychical Research. A onetime printer's devil, he was a page in the New York Public Library when he met Tesla, began to read the scientist's books and became a science reporter. For his coverage of Harvard's Tercentenary in 1936 he won a Pulitzer Prize...
...obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme really stemmed from pagan traditions. Its extralegal courts were held under mystic linden trees, on open hilltops or beneath great oaks. The paraphernalia included a two-handed sword on which the members swore, and a noose of linden fibers for the victim. The sentence of its secret tribunals was always death...
Incompatibility. In Detroit, Mrs. Marie Kohn, suing for divorce, declared that her husband Hassin, a professional fortuneteller, would give her no mystic love philters, declined to look into the crystal ball to solve their problems, refused to read or even hold her hand...
Most of the eight short stories in The Great Fog are as weird as this one. Bearded, erudite Author Henry Fitzgerald Heard is a masterly exponent of the Doylian detective story and the Wellsian, pseudoscientific fantasy. Writing under the name of Gerald Heard, he is also a distinguished British mystic (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity...
...stories are straight mysteries and scientific thrillers, in which the principal elements are a woman's ear, a Siamese cat, a crayfish, a fog which covers the whole world. The other stories are trial balloons inflated by Gerald. They involve an eerie Gothic cathedral, with a mystic message for those who know how to find it ; an English spinster who is saved from suicide by tooth ache and theosophy; a couple of professors who wonder if they can exchange bodies simply by willing it. (They can.) But the nicest concurrence of the two Heards comes in the subtle, uncanny...