Art by Wesso for Harl Vincent’s “Faster than Light” in “Amazing Stories Quarterly,” September 23, 1932.

            “In a moment Teddy had swung out over the abyss. ‘Mary!’ he cried out softly.” [Image caption]

“They were wafted forward suddenly toward the exit of the court.  Ralph saw then, for the first time, a series of horizontal rods above them – rods or tubes, of metal that glowed with a flickering silvery light.  Evidently these conductors carried the force which lifted them and propelled them toward the arched doorway.  This was no conquering of gravity as Teddy Crowley had conquered it but an actual suspension from the overhead rails by an attracting force which acted upon the wires surrounding their bodies.  The sensation was much as if they were floating upright in the waters of a slowly moving river.  

“Ralph saw that the rails extended through the first archway into the temple proper, thence to the outside through the main outer portal.  He thought grimly of his visit to a slaughter house many years before.  There, close by the stock yards of a great American city, he had seen rows of fattened porkers dangling from just such rails, propelled to as sure and hardly less horrible end.  Scalded, shaved, half-dismembered, before the outcries of their final agonies had entirely ceased. . .”  

[Excerpt from the story]

Taken in: United States / Virginia / Washington Forest (show map)

Taken on: May 23, 2024

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