Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Then a voice low, strange and mystic calls, ere comes the morning...
...Bruno, the saintly Anglo-Italian mystic, was making a final effort to tear the dying Eustace from a "sepulcher . . . built of . . . sloths and sensualities...