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ONE OTHER (1953)

Art by Daniel Ross

SOURCES:
"One Other" by Manly Wade Wellman (Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1953)

DESCRIPTION: “... something hiked up like a wet black leech, but much bigger by a thousand times...It was a hand, as broad in the back as a shovel, with fingers as long as a hayfork's tines ... The shoulder was a cypress root humping out of water, and the head was a dark pumpkin, round and smooth and bald, with no face, only two eyes. They were green, not bright green like cat eyes or dog in the night. They were stale rotten green, like something spoiled ... One Other was twice as tall as a tall man, and it was sure enough true that he had only one arm and one leg. The arm would be his left arm, and the leg his left leg ... He made a sure hop toward us on his big single foot, big and flat as a table top ...” (“One Other” by Manly Wade Wellman)

 NOTES: One Other is a being from another dimension. He passes through a Gate in the bottom of a pool at the top of a mountain. He is humanoid in form but twice the size (12') and oily black in color. He has only one arm (left) and one leg (leg) with a large flat foot. His fingers are long and clawed. His head is large with no face only two green eyes.

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