There followed something about being held up by a hitch-hiker.
Then Hall (or at least some energy-source other than my own
conscious mind) came through too, and when I asked if he had left
any work behind he replied:

Y-E-S--T-H-E L-A-S-T G-O-D-L-I-N-G

Later I asked his son about this (without revealing the title) and
Javen Hall told me of the story his father had been plotting when
he died: THE HIDDEN EMPIRE, or THE CHILD OF THE SOUTHWIND.
Whatever was pushing the planchette failed to inform me that when
I found Austin Hall's son and widow, they would put into my hands
an unknown, unpublished fantasy novel by Hall: THE HOUSE OF DAWN!
Some day it may appear in print.

Meanwhile you are getting understandably impatient to explore that
unknown realm of the Blind Spot. Be on your way, and bon voyage!

FORREST J ACKERMAN, Beverley Hills, Calif.






PROLOGUE

Perhaps it were just as well to start at the beginning. A mere
matter of news.