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Over at my new favorite arena, GeekyDomain, I got the chance to dive deep into one of the great literary mysteries in fandom, the Shaver Mystery stories published in postwar Amazing Stories<\/em> magazine<\/a>. At first, it seems like the tale of a harmless nut who happened to be able to turn his hallucinations into a good story. But it grows into something baffling and just a little bit unsettling. Lemuria isn’t the only place with monsters roaming the landscape, it turns out, but the demons in our collective consciousness might be the scariest of all!<\/p>\n

Click through for bonus content:<\/p>\n

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A Shaver fan on Reddit collected every issue in which Shaver first published, now available at the Internet Archive, and listed them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monster Talk podcast has a two-parter episode on the Shaver Mystery phenomenon. Part 1<\/a> here; Part 2<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

Author Fred Nadis in an extended interview<\/a> on his book The Man From Mars: Ray Palmer\u2019s Amazing Pulp Journey<\/em>, viewing the Shaver Mystery saga from the editor’s point of view.<\/p>\n

A sharp-eyed blogger also noticed<\/a> the similarities between Shaver’s ravings and the “influencing machine” phenomenon in schizophrenic delusions, and also picked up a couple other wrinkles I totally missed.<\/p>\n

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