Almost Complete Short Fiction by Richard Shaver (.ePUB)
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Almost Complete Short Fiction (Jerry eBooks, 2024) by Richard Shaver
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Overview: Richard Sharpe Shaver was born on October 8, 1907 in Virginia; however, within a few weeks his family moved to Berwick, Pennsylvania. Little is reliably known about Shaver’s early life. According to Shaver, in 1932, while working on an assembly line at a factory, he developed telepathic abilities that gave him insight into “malign entities in caverns deep within the earth.” According to author Michael Barkun, Shaver gave inconsistent accounts of how he first learned of the hidden cavern world, but the assembly line story was the “most common version.” Shaver said he then quit his job and became a hobo for a period. In 1934, according to Barkun, “Shaver was hospitalized briefly for psychiatric problems . . . but there does not appear to have been a clear diagnosis.” It is known that Shaver, at one point, was a fairly successful artist before turning to editing and writing fiction.
Shaver achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazines (primarily Amazing Stories). Shaver claimed that he had personal experience of a sinister ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. The controversy stemmed from the claim by Shaver, and his editor and publisher Ray Palmer, that Shaver’s writings, whilst presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true. Shaver’s stories were promoted by Ray Palmer as “The Shaver Mystery”.
During the last decades of his life, Shaver devoted himself to “rock books”—stones that he believed had been created by the advanced ancient races and were embedded with legible pictures and texts. He produced paintings allegedly based on the rocks’ images and photographed them extensively, as well as writing about them.
Richard S. Shaver died on November 5, 1975 in Summit, Arkansas.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Pulp
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