
A mysterious apparition appears on a snowy Vermont farm, drawing a crowd of curious townsfolk and a handful of outsiders who can’t resist getting closer. Reporter Robert Manse, chemist Wilton Grant, and his sister Beatrice find themselves at the edge of the phenomenon, where the ghost seems to hover unmoving yet somehow aware. Their investigation quickly turns from mere curiosity to a desperate search for an explanation that defies ordinary physics.
Their inquiries lead them to discover a hidden barrier—a thin, shimmering wall that separates our world from a shadowy realm beyond ordinary perception. Stepping through, the trio enters a strange new landscape populated by enigmatic beings and governed by rules that twist the very notion of space and time. As they grapple with this alien environment, an unsettling adversary begins to emerge, hinting at dangers that could reach far beyond the borders of their own reality.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (204K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
New York, NY: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1927, reprint 1941.
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2024-04-12
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1887–1957
A prolific early science-fiction writer, he helped shape the pulp era with fast-moving adventures and imaginative ideas about time, space, and strange new worlds. He is especially remembered for stories like The Girl in the Golden Atom, which brought big cosmic wonder to magazine readers.
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