Excerpt from Shadows, Vol. 14: March, 1923 After laboriously compiling the meager accounts of the hero of The Shriek which his modest retiring press agents so reluctantly offer for public accept ance, a good astrologer would say that on the day of his birth, the planet Venus must have occupied at least three houses at once, all of which must have been very close to the ascendent. Figuring backward in this manner we would considerably alter the appear ance of the heavens of some years past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.