Derleth, August (ed) - Strange Ports of Call / Дерлет, Август (ред) - Странные места назначения [1948, EPUB, ENG]

The Cunning of the Beast by Nelson S. Bond The Worm by David H. Keller, M.D. The Crystal Bullet by Donald Wandrei The Thing from Outside / Следы ниоткуда by George Allan England At the Mountains of Madness / Хребты безумия by H. P. Lovecraft Mars on the Ether / Вероятность жизни на третьей планете by Lord Dunsany The God-Box by Howard Wandrei Mr. Bauer and the Atoms by Fritz Leiber The Crystal Egg / Хрустальное яйцо by H. G. Wells John Jones' Dollar / Доллар Джона Джонса by Harry Stephen Keeler Call Him Demon / Назовем его демоном by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore Master of the Asteroid by Clark Ashton Smith A Guest in the House / Гость в доме by Frank Belknap Long The Lost Street / Улица, которой не было by Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak Forgotten (= The Forgotten Man of Space) / Забытый by P. Schuyler Miller Far Centaurus / Далёкий Центавр by A. E. van Vogt Thunder and Roses / Громы и розы by Theodore Sturgeon The Green Hills of Earth / Зелёные холмы Земли by Robert A. Heinlein Blunder by Philip Wylie The Million Year Picnic / Каникулы на Марсе by Ray Bradbury

THE CUNNING OF THE BEAST Nelson Bond

THERE HAS BEEN MUCH DISAGREEABLE comment on the case of our late brother, the Yawa Eloem, and we number amongst us many who feel that the punishment meted out to him, severe as it was, still did not exact complete retribution for the evil he loosed in our midst. It is with these vengeful ones I should like to take issue. Now, let it not be thought that I view with approval the experiments of the learned and unhappy Doctor Eloem. The reverse is true; being one of his oldest friends and earliest confidants, I was perhaps the first to warn him against doing that which he did. This warning I delivered on the night the Yawa conceived his staggering ambition. But in refutation to those who contend that his intention was to overthrow our great civilization, destroy our culture, and turn the rulership of our beloved homeland into the hands of barbarian monstrosities, I feel I should present the true facts. . . .