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THE BLIND SPOT By Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint





CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PROLOGUE

I. — RHAMDA AVEC

II. — THE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY

III. — “NOW THERE ARE TWO”

IV. — GONE

V. — FRIENDS

VI. — CHICK WATSON

VII. — THE RING

VIII. — THE NERVINA

IX. — “NOW THERE ARE THREE”

X. — MAN OR PHANTOM

XI. — BAFFLED

XII. — A DEAL IN PROPERTY

XIII. — ALBERT JEROME

XIV. — A NEW ELEMENT

XV. — AGAIN THE NERVINA

XVI. — CHARLOTTE

XVII. — THE SHEPHERD

XVIII. — CHARLOTTE'S STORY

XIX. — HOBART FENTON TAKES UP THE TALE

XX. — THE HOUSE OF MIRACLES

XXI. — OUT OF THIN AIR

XXII. — THE ROUSING OF A MIND

XXIII. — THE RHAMDA AGAIN

XXIV. — THE LIVING DEATH

XXV. — AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR

XXVI. — DIRECT FROM PARADISE

XXVII. — SOLVED

XXVIII. — THE MAN FROM SPACE

XXIX. — THE OCCULT WORLD

XXX. — THE PLUNGE

XXXI. — UP FOR BREATH

XXXII. — THROUGH UNKNOWN WATERS

XXXIII. — A LONG WAY FROM SHORE

XXXIV. — THE BAR SENESTRO

XXXV. — THE PERFECT IMPOSTOR

XXXVI. — AN ALLY, AND SOLID GROUND

XXXVII. — LOOKING DOWN

XXXVIII. — THE VOICE FROM THE VOID

XXXIX. — WHO IS THE JARADOS?

XL. — THE TEMPLE OF THE BELL

XLI. — THE PROPHECY

XLII. — PAT MACPHERSON'S STORY

XLIII. — THE HOME OF THE JARADOS

XLIV. — DR. HOLCOMB'S STORY

XLV. — THE ARADNA

XLVI. — OUT OF THE OCCULT

XLVII. — THE LAST LEAF

XLVIII. — THE UNACCOUNTABLE







INTRODUCTION THE LURE AND LORE OF “THE BLIND SPOT” BY FORREST J ACKERMAN

The Blind Spot opens with the words: “Perhaps it were just as well to start at the beginning. A mere matter of news.” Suppose I use them in the same sense:

A mere matter of news: The first instalment of this fabulous novel was featured in Argosy-All-Story-Weekly for May 14, 1921. Described as a “different” serial, it was introduced by a cover by Modest Stein. In the foreground was the profile of a girl of another dimension—ethereal, sensuous, the eternal feminine—the Nervina of the story. Filmy crystalline earrings swept back over her bare shoulders. Dominating the background was a huge flaming yellow ball, like our Sun as seen from the hypothetical Vulcan—splotched with murky, mysterious globii vitonae. There was an ancient quay, and emerging from the ultramarine waters about it a silhouetted metropolis of spires, domes, and minarets. It was 1921, and that generation thus received its first glimpse of the alien landscape of The Blind Spot and the baroque beauty of an immortal woman of fantasy fiction.

The authors? Homer Eon Flint was already a reigning favourite with post-World-War-I enthusiasts of imaginative literature, who had eagerly devoured his QUEEN OF LIFE and LORD OF DEATH, his KING OF CONSERVE ISLAND and THE PLANETEER. Austin Hall was well known and popular for his ALMOST IMMORTAL, REBEL SOUL, and INTO THE INFINITE.

Then came this epoch-making collaboration. When Mary Gnaedinger launched Famous Fantastic Mysteries magazine she early presented THE BLIND SPOT, and printed it again in that magazine's companion Fantastic Novels. These reprints are now collectors' items, almost unobtainable, and otherwise the story has long been out of print. Rumour says an unauthorised German version of THE BLIND SPOT, has been published in book form. There is another book called THE BLIND SPOT, and also a magazine story, and a major movie studio was to produce a film of the same title. However, here is presented the only hard-cover version of the only BLIND SPOT of consequence to lovers of fantasy.

Who wrote the story? When I first looked into the question, as a 15 year old boy, Homer Eon Flint (he originally spelled his name with a “d”) was already dead of a fall into a canyon. In 1949 his widow told me: “I think Homer's father contributed that middle name”—the same name (with slightly different spelling) that the Irish poet George Russell took as his pen-name, which became known by its abbreviation AE. Mrs. Flindt said of Flint's father: “He was a very deep thinker, and enjoyed reading heavy material.” Like father, like son. “Homer

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