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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Paracelsus
had
written
and
illustrated
his
nightmares.
Had
hinted
of
strange
acts
of
flesh-grafting--as
the
grafting
of
legs
on
the
head
of
man.
He
had
spoken,
and
written
about,
ghastly
operations,
from
which
men
came
forth
as
part
men,
part
spiders;
part
men,
part
scorpions,
dogs,
cats,
crocodiles....
Sarka
thought,
as
his
mind
went
back
to
those
ancient
books
of
his
people
in
which
still
remained
vestiges
of
the
theories
of
Paracelsus,
that
somehow,
in
his
dreams,
Paracelsus
must
have
visited
the
craters
of
the
Moon.
These
people
...
if
they
could
be
called
people....
They
had
heads
like
the
heads
of
Earthlings,
broad-domed
of
brow,
lacking
eyelashes
or
lids,
so
that
their
eyes
were
perpetually
staring.
They
possessed
no
bodies
at
all,
and
their
legs,
thin
and
attenuated
to
the
size
of
the
wrists
of
average
men,
seemed
to
support
the
massive
heads
with
difficulty!
From
all
directions
they
came,
looking
like
spiders
such
as
Sarka
the
First
had
described
to
Sarka,
when
Sarka
had
been
a
mere
boy.
They
came
on
the
floor,
out
of
the
tunnels;
they
dropped
from
the
walls
of
the
tunnels,
and
down
from
the
invisible
roofs,
landing
on
the
floor
as
lightly
as
feathers--and
all
converged
on
Jaska
and
Sarka.
They
seemed
to
have
no
fear
at
all,
but
only
a
vast
curiosity.
Closer
and
closer
they
came.
Jaska's
grip
tightened
on
the
hand
of
Sarka,
for
one
of
the
creatures,
with
a
spiderish
leap,
had
jumped
upon
her,
fastening
its
legs
in
her
tight-fitting
costume,
where
he
hung,
his
face
within
an
inch
or
two
of
hers.
His
lidless
eyes,
unblinking,
stared
deeply
into
hers.
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