Unsure where to begin a search for occult threats, Jim Galgadet tracks down a former colleague Wassily Petrov, who defected from the Soviet Union. What he finds in the Soviet files evokes first curiosity and then sanity bending horror.
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One of the most enjoyable parts of writing these stories is delving into historical documents. I’ve used diaries, biographies, personal correspondence, and declassified documents. The CIA has recently declassified a whole host of documents on the para-psychology operations of others states. One of these reports that I’ve been digging through has a fascinating illustration. It is fascinating in its own right, but also is an example of something I have seen over and over both in fiction and in the occult psuydo-sciences.
