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Midnight

Midnight. Initially as part of a collection of stories titled “Sketches”. Published in the Junto, September 1929.

Sketches

Sketches. This title was used for two separate collections of stories. It was first used in THE JUNTO, Volume 2, #4, September 1929, for a bundle that included “Sentiment”, “Musings”, “Midnight”, and “Etched in Ebony”. The title was re-used by Glenn Lord for a bundle of seven stories that were published in TRUMPET #7. Those seven stories include “Ambition in the Moonlight”, “To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew”, “Musings”, “Etched in Ebony”, “The Galveston Affair”, “Surrender – Your Money or Your Vice”, and “Them”. All seven stories came from various issues of THE JUNTO.

The Grey God Passes

“The Grey God Passes” is a vivid tale set during a tumultuous period in Irish history, focusing on the Battle of Clontarf and the symbolic end of the Norse gods’ influence over the region.

The story begins with Conn, a thrall (slave), confronting a mysterious stranger who knows of Conn’s killing of his master, Wolfgar Snorri’s son. The stranger, later revealed to be Odin, the Grey God, hints at an impending war in Ireland and vanishes after predicting doom and the fall of gods.

Talons in the Dark

“Talons in the Dark” unfolds a mysterious and chilling tale set against the backdrop of the secluded White Lake, where Joel Brill, a man of science, becomes entangled in a horrifying series of events following the brutal murder of his friend, Jim Reynolds. What starts as a perplexing murder investigation soon spirals into a deadly confrontation with a primal terror that transcends the boundaries of the known world.