1921, and that generation thus received its first glimpse of the
alien landscape of The Blind Spot and the baroque beauty of an
immortal woman of fantasy fiction.

The authors? Homer Eon Flint was already a reigning favourite with
post-World-War-I enthusiasts of imaginative literature, who had
eagerly devoured his QUEEN OF LIFE and LORD OF DEATH, his KING OF
CONSERVE ISLAND and THE PLANETEER. Austin Hall was well known and
popular for his ALMOST IMMORTAL, REBEL SOUL, and INTO THE
INFINITE.

Then came this epoch-making collaboration. When Mary Gnaedinger
launched Famous Fantastic Mysteries magazine she early presented
THE BLIND SPOT, and printed it again in that magazine's companion
Fantastic Novels. These reprints are now collectors' items, almost
unobtainable, and otherwise the story has long been out of print.
Rumour says an unauthorised German version of THE BLIND SPOT, has
been published in book form. There is another book called THE
BLIND SPOT, and also a magazine story, and a major movie studio
was to produce a film of the same title. However, here is
presented the only hard-cover version of the only BLIND SPOT of
consequence to lovers of fantasy.

Who wrote the story? When I first looked into the question, as a
15 year old boy, Homer Eon Flint (he originally spelled his name
with a "d") was already dead of a fall into a canyon. In 1949 his
widow told me: "I think Homer's father contributed that middle
name"--the same name (with slightly different spelling) that the
Irish poet George Russell took as his pen-name, which became known
by its abbreviation AE. Mrs. Flindt said of Flint's father: "He