"Hold on, there!" came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. "What are you doing? And what's that picture doing?"

It was one of the Museum's guards.

"I was going to ask somebody that same question," I told him as austerely as I could manage. "What about this picture? I thought there was a B cklin hanging here."

The guard relaxed. "Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I thought you were somebody else--the man who brought that thing." He nodded at the picture. "Personally, I think it's plain beastly."

"And the Museum has accepted it at last?" I asked.

He shook his head. "Oh, no, sir."

I, too, came close. There was no plate beneath the painting. But in the lower left-hand corner of the canvas were sprawling capitals, pale paint on the dark, spelling out the word "GOLGOTHA." Beneath these, in small, barely readable script:

"I sold my soul that I might paint a living picture."

The Rock Bred Evolution in Reverse Devil's Asteroid appeared in the July 1941 issue of Comet. "It was not very large, as asteroids go, but about it clung a silvery mist of atmosphere. Deeper flashes through the mist betokened water, and green patches hinted of rich vegetation. The space-patroller circled the little world knowledgeably, like a wasp buzzing around an apple. In the control room, by the forward ports, the Martian skipper addressed his Terrestrial companion." The Golgotha Dancers appeared in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. "A curious and terrifying story about an artist who sold his soul that he might paint a living picture." Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region.

"Hold on, there!" came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. "What are you doing? And what's that picture doing?"

It was one of the Museum's guards.

"I was going to ask somebody that same question," I told him as austerely as I could manage. "What about this picture? I thought there was a B cklin hanging here."

The guard relaxed. "Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I thought you were somebody else--the man who brought that thing." He nodded at the picture. "Personally, I think it's plain beastly."

"And the Museum has accepted it at last?" I asked.

He shook his head. "Oh, no, sir."

I, too, came close. There was no plate beneath the painting. But in the lower left-hand corner of the canvas were sprawling capitals, pale paint on the dark, spelling out the word "GOLGOTHA." Beneath these, in small, barely readable script:

"I sold my soul that I might paint a living picture."

This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.

Sam Ward was yearning for adventure when a Cherokee man arrived from a distant village with a tale of a monstrous hairy creature threatening his land. The formerly peaceful beast went rogue upon the death of its mate, and the chief of the Twilight People sent Otter to ask for help. Sam's quest quickly turns dangerous with new challenges and new enemies, but using their wits, skills, and courage, Sam and Otter finally face Giluhda, last of the living mammoths.

This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.

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