Horror Blayre, Christopher: The Purple Sapphire and Other Posthumous Papers. v1. 15 May 2021

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These “selected papers,” deposited with the fictional Christopher Blayre, Registrar of the University of Cosmopoli, are the weird and supernatural experiences of the professorial staff of the University.

A series of tongue-in-cheek weird tales and sf stories, featuring a cursed jewel, demonic possession, “time travel”, mediums and spiritualists, visitors from Venus, and other strange and uncanny episodes, with more than a few smiles and chuckles to be had.

Note that “The Cheetah-Girl” was excised by the [original] publisher on grounds of obscenity and released in a very limited privately printed edition. (— Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)

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“Christopher Blayre” was the pseudonym of Edward Heron-Allen FRS (born Edward Heron Allen) (17 December 1861 – 28 March 1943); an English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works of Omar Khayyam. He produced many academic works; as well as a number of novels and short stories of science fiction and horror written under his pseudonym.
(—adapted from Wikipedia.)

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