(#174971) THE HEADS OF CERBERUS. Gertrude Barrows Bennett, "Francis Stevens."

THE HEADS OF CERBERUS. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1952 Polaris Press edition. Introduction by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. Fantasy (in the style of A. Merritt who was once credited with this pseudonym) set in 2118 in Philadelphia where city government has evolved into a religious tyranny. Reprinted from a 1919 Street & Smith pulp, THE THRILL BOOK, this novel is considered to be the first work of fantasy to envisage the parallel time concept. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1085. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 163. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 718-19. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#174971).

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