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After their whirlwind marriage and honeymoon, Jane and Dick went to their new home in rural England...a gloomy place rumored to be haunted. A creepy house, strange neighbors, and newlyweds—quite a mix!
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
ICE MAIDEN
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Copyright © 1955 by John Russell Fearn
Originally published in The British Science Fiction Magazine, April 1955,
under the title A Matter of Vibration, under the pseudonym Vargo Statten
.
Reprinted by permission of the Cosmos Literary Agency.
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
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ICE MAIDEN
JOHN RUSSELL FEARN
Now, sweetheart, you stay here and play with your toys. It won’t be long before I’m back…
Vera Morton’s nurse took a last, fond look at the merry-eyed child in the nursery, and then she went out and locked the door. Possibly Ella would have been more loyal to her charge had not spring been in the air as it was, the only thing which mattered to her was a date in town with a certain dashing young Lothario.
Vera Morton was just six years old, plump and black-haired. Also in town, her mother and father were attending an important social event… And below the Morton flat, directly under the nursery in fact, David Gregory toiled steadily with complicated apparatus. He surveyed the accumulation of equipment with satisfaction—the coils, condensors, insulator-banks, and loops of flex socketed to power points.
The click of the door latch made him glance up, and his young son William came strolling in, hands in pockets, interest written all over his youthful face.
How’s it coming on, dad?
Oh, not so bad…
David Gregory gave a smile and ruffled the boy’s shock of hair. Will, you’re eight years old now, and unless I miss my guess you’ll be the son of a millionaire before you’re another eight years older…
Better be before that, Dave…
Gregory’s wife came in and closed the door. This luxury apartment which you’ve transformed into something resembling a garage needs paying for, remember. Either that invention of yours works, or we go on the rocks… Landlords are funny that way.
It’ll work, dear,
Dave Gregory assured her earnestly. In fact, I don’t think there could be a more perfect system for military defence. All a matter of getting the War Office to see eye to eye with me. Close the switch, and out goes a field of energy, which stops any invader getting within miles of us. That means directed missiles, too. Nothing whatever can get through a field like this: even A- and H-bombs would be dissipated.
Yes, Dave,
his wife said patiently, quite at sea.
I’ll show you what I mean,
he volunteered. Watch!
He made a final check-over and then threw the master-switch. Instantly a tremendous pressure-wave surged through the