originally published in The Fantasy Fan June 1934
Crawford Tillinghast, mad scientist, has invented a device that allows a person to experience planes of existence outside our own reality.
The unnamed narrator, participating in the experiment, sees hordes of weird-ass critters floating around a reality that overlaps our own. Tillinghast reveals that the experiment has actually transported the house into the alien plane, and that the creatures can see us too!
One of the boogies kills Tillinghast's servant, and is making for the narrator, who grabs a gun and shoots the machine. Tillinghast dies on the spot. The cops determine that he died of apoplexy, and that he must have murdered his servants.
An odd, Poe-like tale. This is H.P.L. finding his way from Poe to his own concepts. A transitional work.
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