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100 1 _aLong, Frank Belknap,
_d1903-1994
245 1 4 _aThe hounds of Tindalos
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from Weird Tales March 1929.
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hounds_of_Tindalos_(book)
500 _aRelease date is 2024-05-08
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long is a short story published in the late 1920s and is part of the genre of weird fiction. This eerie narrative explores the boundaries of time and reality through the experiences of a protagonist who witnesses the horrific consequences of a friend's reckless experiment with a mind-altering drug. The story delves into themes of time travel, the nature of consciousness, and the existence of otherworldly beings that lurk beyond human perception. The tale begins with a character named Chalmers, who believes he can transcend time and access knowledge of the past and future through the use of an ancient drug. After his drug-fueled journey into time, he encounters terrifying entities known as the Hounds of Tindalos, who are said to exist outside the conventional dimensions understood by humankind. As he becomes engrossed in this horrifying experience, Chalmers loses touch with reality and physically deteriorates, ultimately succumbing to madness. His friend, who attempts to help him, grapples with the dreadful visions Chalmers describes—beings that threaten to invade the world through angles, symbolizing a primordial evil. In a climax filled with dread, Chalmers' fate unfolds in a haunting conclusion, leaving readers to ponder the thin veil between knowledge and horror, and what lurks beyond the limits of human understanding. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cIndianapolois, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1929
653 _aShort stories
653 _aHorror tales
653 _aTime travel -- Fiction
653 _aOccultism -- Fiction
700 1 _aSenf, C. C.
_q(Curtis Charles),
_d1873-1949
830 0 _aProduced from Weird Tales March 1929.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73575
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