This material was inserted after the paragraph beginning “Unclean and bestial as a figment of some atavistic madness...” on page 103:
“And this thing really exists?” Bellman seemed to hear his own voice through a creeping film of slumber, as if another than himself had spoken, and had roused him.
“It is the Dweller,” mumbled Chalmers. He leaned toward the image, and his outstretched fingers trembled above it in the air, moving to and fro as if he were about to caress the white horror. “The Yorhis made the idol long ago,” he went on. “I don’t know how it was made.... And the metal they moulded it from is like nothing else.... A new element. Do as I am doing... and you won’t mind the darkness so much.... You don’t miss your eyes or need them here. You’ll drink the putrid water of the lake, you’ll eat the raw slugs, and raw blind fish and lake-worms, and find them good.... And you won’t know if the Dweller comes and gets you.”
Even as he spoke, he began to caress the image, running his hands over the gibbous carapace, the flat reptilian head. His blind face took on the dreamy languor of an opium-eater, his voice died to inarticulate murmurs, like the lapping sound of a thick liquid. About him, there was an air of strange subhuman depravity.
Several mentions of Chalmers were inserted after this point. The final significant mention of Chalmers occurs after the paragraph beginning “Whether he passed from these obscure nightmares...” on page 104. Whereas in our text the Earth-men stumble across the half-eaten body of one of the Martians, in the version published in
Wonder Stories
it was Chalmers who fell prey to the Dweller.
APPENDIX FIVE:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Table of Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Texts
The Mandrakes
The Beast of Averoigne
A Star-Change
The Disinterment of Venus
The White Sybil
The Isle of the Torturers
The Dimension of Chance
The Dweller in the Gulf
The Maze of the Enchanter
The Third Episode of Vathek: The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah
Genius Loci
The Secret of the Cairn
The Charnel God
The Dark Eidolon
The Voyage of King Euvoran
Vulthoom
The Weaver in the Vault
The Flower-Women
Appendix One: Story Notes
Appendix Two: Alternate Ending to “The White Sybil”
Appendix Three: The Muse of Hyperborea
Appendex Four: The Dweller in the Gulf: Added Material
Appendix Five: Bibliography
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Texts
The Mandrakes
The Beast of Averoigne
A Star-Change
The Disinterment of Venus
The White Sybil
The Isle of the Torturers
The Dimension of Chance
The Dweller in the Gulf
The Maze of the Enchanter
The Third Episode of Vathek: The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah
Genius Loci
The Secret of the Cairn
The Charnel God
The Dark Eidolon
The Voyage of King Euvoran
Vulthoom
The Weaver in the Vault
The Flower-Women
Appendix One: Story Notes
Appendix Two: Alternate Ending to “The White Sybil”
Appendix Three: The Muse of Hyperborea
Appendex Four: The Dweller in the Gulf: Added Material
Appendix Five: Bibliography