The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales, by H.F. Heard (hardcover)

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The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales, by H.F. Heard (hardcover)

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Henry Fitzgerald Heard (1889-1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and authored over 35 books. The Great Fog collects some of his greatest tales.

Cover copy from the 1944 Vanguard edition:
"The Great Fog is literary adrenalin for the jaded reader of the macabre. Mr. Heard is a master of capturing the split second when the usual becomes the unusual, when the ordinary becomes the mysterious. His murderers are not killers but astute men of ingenuity, his dreamers are men of unknown countries -- and the cats -- well, not even these inscrutable creatures are safe from his malevolent pen."

Time magazine:
"Heard is a masterly exponent of the Doylian detective story and the Wellsian, pseudoscientific fantasy. He makes the flesh creep...the conscience crawl."

Orville Prescott's review in The New York Times:
"Mr. Heard has combined vast and curious learning with a strange and wonderful imagination. The result is a volume that should interest enthusiasts of the macabre and of scientific fantasy. His tales have an overwhelming effect. He is always original in both manner and matter."

Christopher Morley in The Book-of-the-Month-Club News:
"Mr. Heard has brilliantly carried into test tubes the scientific fantasy invented by Poe and developed by H. G. Wells. He ranges botany, meteorology, psychology, all the 'ologies, for his plots; on the dark side of science he finds the golden bough of magic fiction. Nothing is so rare as a collection of really intelligent short stories. It is a form of writing that has long been corrupted by its easy salability...This (to my own special taste) belongs with the best."