The Taint And Other Novellas
“Agented in America by Kirby McCauley, at 25,000 words it was too long for Ed Ferman’s “Fantasy & Science Fiction” and had to be reduced by some 5,000 words. By the time I had completed the work on it I was a Staff Sergeant serving in Celle in Germany, writing evenings or whenever I could find some spare time. This novella first saw light of day in the December 1975 issue of “F&SF,” and at once earned itself a World Fantasy Award nomination—I suspect for its originality. Alas that it didn’t win ...the award! Reprinted two years later, in “The Horror at Oakdeene,” and having twice seen print in the quarter century gone by since then, it remains one of my personal favourites…IConsider: I am, or was, a meteorologist of some note—a man whose interests and leanings have always been away from fantasy and the so-called “supernatural”and yet now I believe in a wind that blows between the worlds, and in a Being that inhabits that wind, striding in feathery cirrus and shrieking lightning storm alike across icy Arctic heavens.Just how such an utter contradiction of beliefs could come about I will now attempt to explain, for I alone possess all of the facts.MoreLess
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