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Title: PseudoPod 632: The Harbour Master
Post by: Bdoomed on January 27, 2019, 03:49:16 AM
PseudoPod 632: The Harbour Master (http://pseudopod.org/2019/01/25/pseudopod-632-the-harbour-master/)

Author: Robert W. Chambers (http://pseudopod.org/people/robert-w-chambers/)
Narrator: B.J. Harrisont (http://pseudopod.org/people/b-j-harrison/)
Host: Alex Hofelich (http://pseudopod.org/people/alex-hofelich/)

“The Harbour Master” first appeared in Ainslee’s Magazine, August 1899 and was included in the fix-up novel In Search of the Unknown, which is available for free download through Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18668).

Content warning: Use of insensitive racist term (“darkie”) and ableist stereotypes



Because it all seems so improbable—so horribly impossible to me now, sitting here safe and sane in my own library—I hesitate to record an episode which already appears to me less horrible than grotesque. Yet, unless this story is written now, I know I shall never have the courage to tell the truth about the matter—not from fear of ridicule, but because I myself shall soon cease to credit what I now know to be true. Yet scarcely a month has elapsed since I heard the stealthy purring of what I believed to be the shoaling undertow—scarcely a month ago, with my own eyes, I saw that which, even now, I am beginning to believe never existed. As for the harbor-master—and the blow I am now striking at the old order of things—But of that I shall not speak now, or later; I shall try to tell the story simply and truthfully, and let my friends testify as to my probity and the publishers of this book corroborate them.




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