# Short Fiction — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Short Fiction by Frank Belknap Long.

- [The Hounds of Tindalos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-hounds-of-tindalos.md): A man experiences a terrifying encounter with otherworldly entities known as the Hounds of Tindalos, which pursue him through angles and dimensions, leading to a descent into madness and a desperate struggle for survival
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/i.md): The narrator recounts a disturbing encounter with Chalmers, who has experimented with a drug to perceive time and space beyond normal limits. Chalmers describes terrifying visions of beings from angular time—the Hounds o
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/ii.md): The narrator reluctantly agrees to help a hysterical Chalmers, who believes that entities called the Hounds of Tindalos can only reach him through angles. They spend hours plastering all corners and crevices of the room 
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iii.md): Two newspaper announcements from the Partridgeville Gazette for July 3, 1928, report an earthquake that damaged the financial district and the murder of occult writer Halpin Chalmers. Chalmers was found nude, decapitated
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iv.md): James Morton, a chemist and bacteriologist, reports on a fluid sample sent by Mr. Douglas. He describes it as living protoplasm lacking enzymes, which should make it immortal, challenging fundamental biological assumptio

> 34 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=short_fiction_17_se_567kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/v.md)
- [The Red Fetish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-red-fetish.md)
- [I: Out in Space](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/i-out-in-space.md)
- [II: Through the Cloud Blanket](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/ii-through-the-cloud-blanket.md)
- [III: What the Camera Showed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iii-what-the-camera-showed.md)
- [IV: Eddington's Oscillations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iv-eddington-s-oscillations.md)
- [The Sky Trap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-sky-trap.md)
- [The Mercurian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-mercurian.md)
- [I: Graveyard of Old Ships](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/i-graveyard-of-old-ships.md)
- [Planet Shift](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/ii-planet-shift.md)
- [III: The Mirage Pup](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iii-the-mirage-pup.md)
- [IV: New York Kid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iv-new-york-kid.md)
- [Time Trap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/time-trap.md)
- [The Miniature Menace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-miniature-menace.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [The Mississippi Saucer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-mississippi-saucer.md)
- [Lake of Fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/lake-of-fire.md)
- [The Timeless Ones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-timeless-ones.md)
- [Little Men of Space](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/little-men-of-space.md)
- [The Man the Martians Made](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-man-the-martians-made.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [The Man from Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-man-from-time.md)
- [The Calm Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-calm-man.md)
- [Mr. Caxton Draws a Martian Bird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/mr-caxton-draws-a-martian-bird.md)
- [The Cottage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-cottage.md)
- [Two Way Destiny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/two-way-destiny.md)
- [Preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/preview.md)
- [Young Man with a Trumpet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/young-man-with-a-trumpet.md)

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