Four Weird Tales

John Enderby Jones looks at St. Paul’s and can almost see the stone dissolve—not into rubble, but into the living idea beneath it. To him, the world is only a curtain, and something vast waits behind it.

In the first of these four strange tales, Jones keeps his place in a fire insurance office, among clerks bent over their work beneath electric lamps. He does his duty without ambition, certain that his ordinary life is only the surface of a deeper reality—and that every life carries the weight of those before it. Ten years ago, a glance through a glass door fixed one man in his mind: the Manager, with whom Jones believes he has a grave account to settle from another life. What lies behind that first flash of recognition, and what will settling the account demand?

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