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- Categories:Gender, Short Story
- Title "devils from darkonia", (C)1945, editor ?, Drama, Fantasy,
Suspense, body swap, possession, magic, body thief, pub standard
magazines ?
Description
A man answers a classified ad our primary character placed in a
newspaper when he was a bit tipsy. "Wanted, business association
with the devil or kindred demon. Interested party willing to trade
one slightly used soul for favor granted." what does this man, a
professor want from the demon who has answered the ad? He wants to
fight in the war but doesn't meet the qualifications physically. So
he wants a new body so he can fight. What kind? Something
different, he replies. not a good choice of words to a demon When
he gets back there is a delivery in his apartment bedroom. A
bracelet will transfer him back and forth into the new body and
back. but the body department made an error and gave his something
really different. He gets a female body instead. well you know
customer service departments, it takes a while to get an answer and
he decides to try out the new form and goes to buy some clothes.
Being a gentleman, he refuses to look at the body while dressing
it. And then the real owner of the body shows up and she wants his
help getting it back from the demons... a nice story pg rates but
spunky for the 40's when it was published. a nice combo of humor
satire sci fi adventure amd mystery. I give it 3 for tg elements 3
for amount of tg and 3 1/2 for overall quality my copy is from a
pulp reprint from the 50's? but with no covers I cant tell you the
issue. it might well be a magazine called fantastic story magazine
judging by the editorial content about the author's other published
stories doing well a while back in that magazine's "weinbaum issue"
copyright data says it was originally published in the spring 1945
issue of thrilling wonder stories. good luck finding this one
folks! (It runs from page 10 to page 49 including several pages of
illustrations in the reprint copy i have)
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originally posted by c jones on 2000-01-01, no edits, entryid=6973
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