A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine, December 1949 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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REEP, SHADOW! AN EPIC NOVEL OF CHAPTER 1 Four Suicides SORCERY AGAINST SCIENCE UNPACKED my bags at the Ex- plorers’ Club gloomily enough. The singularly unpleasant depression with which I’ had awakened in my berth the night before had refused to be shaken off. By It was like the echo of some nightmare whose details I had forgotten, but which A. Merritt still lurked just over the threshold of consciousness. Joined to it was another irritation. Of course I had not expected any Mayor’s Committee to welcome me home. But that neither Bennett nor Ralston had met me began to assume the aspect of a Copyright 193845 and 19148 by Popular Publications, Inc, 11 x GComichoo (Eo) in