
THE PLOTTERS - By ALEXANDER BLADE
An otherworldly visitor awakens on a storm‑tossed forest floor, his mind a blank haze and his body driven by pure instinct. He runs through tangled trees, slipping in mud and brambles, each painful crash against a branch grinding the fog of his memory into something sharper. The sudden sting of a broken rib finally tears through the grayness, granting him fleeting flashes of his own name—Marko—and of a mysterious woman named Beth.
The narrative pivots to a sleepy college campus, where Marko hides his alien origins behind ordinary student habits. He slips into a faculty‑only pool, trades uneasy smiles with the suspicious Mrs. Mara, and watches the world with a careful blend of curiosity and caution. Beneath the surface of lectures and hallway gossip, an unseen plot begins to pull him toward Beth and the deeper secrets he was sent to uncover.
Language
en
Duration
~32 minutes (30K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2010-06-13
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1907–1975
Best known for the wildly popular and controversial “Shaver Mystery” stories, this American pulp writer and artist became one of the most talked-about figures in postwar science fiction magazines. His work mixed fantasy, paranoia, and underground civilizations in a way that still fascinates readers of strange fiction.
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