To him, in that moment, it seemed the most shattering and dislocating experience he had ever known, so that his heart emptied itself of all feeling whatsoever as by a sudden draught. He stood motionless an instant, listening as it were with his whole body, then staggered back against the nearest tree for support, disorganized hopelessly in mind and spirit. The sound dropped upon him out of that still, wintry sky with an effect of dismay and terror unsurpassed.
He had been secretly dreading all the time that itįar overhead, muted by great height and distance, strangely thinned and wailing, he heard the crying voice of Defago, the guide. It dropped with deadly effect upon the sorest spot of all, completely unnerving him. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood's Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.S.
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