Clifford Simak - Hellhounds of the Cosmos

Mal Shaff bowed.

Gone was all thought of the third dimension. Through Mal Shaff’s mind raced strange, haunting memories of a red desert scattered with scarlet boulders, of silver cliffs of gleaming metallic stone, of huge seas battering against towering headlands. There were other things, too. Great palaces of shining jewels, and weird nights of inhuman joy where hellish flames lit deep, black caverns.

He bowed again.

“I thank you, Bathazar,” he said.

Without a backward look he shambled down the hill with the others.

“Yes?” said the editor. “What’s that you say? Doctor White is dead! A suicide! Yeah, I understand. Worry, hey! Here, Roberts, take this story.”

He handed over the phone.

“When you write it,” he said, “play up the fact he was worried about not being able to bring the men back to the third dimension. Give him plenty of praise for ending the Black Horror. It’s a big story.”

“Sure,” said Roberts, then spoke into the phone: “All right, Bill, shoot the works.”

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