To My Father (Whose feet tread the lost aeons)
Author’s Introduction to the Manuscript
I. The Finding of the Manuscript
II. The Plain of Silence
III. The House in the Arena
IV. The Earth
V. The Thing in the Pit
VI. The Swine-Things
VII. The Attack
VIII. After the Attack
IX. In the Cellars
X. The Time of Waiting
XI. The Searching of the Gardens
XII. The Subterranean Pit
XIII. The Trap in the Great Cellar
XIV. The Sea of Sleep
XV. The Noise in the Night
XVI. The Awakening
XVII. The Slowing Rotation
XVIII. The Green Star
XIX. The End of the Solar System
XX. The Celestial Globes
XXI. The Dark Sun
XXII. The Dark Nebula
XXIII. Pepper
XXIV. The Footsteps in the Garden
XXV. The Thing From the Arena
XXVI. The Luminous Speck
XXVII. Conclusion
Grief