Crawford is arrested for the murder.Ĭrawford is committed to a psychiatric ward, where he is treated by Dr. When the police arrive, they find Pretorius decapitated. However, the crazed Pretorius refuses, claiming that the machine's effects on his brain are giving him an "orgasm of the mind." Events transpire to the point where Crawford escapes Pretorius' attic laboratory with an axe, fleeing outside.
When he is bitten by one of them, he urges Pretorius to turn the machine off. Crawford Tillinghast, activates the machine and soon sees strange creatures in the air. Edward Pretorius is a scientist who has developed the Resonator, a machine which stimulates the pineal gland and allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. The police investigate the scene and it is placed on record that Tillinghast murdered the two house servants.ĭr. Tillinghast dies immediately thereafter as a result of apoplexy. Terrified beyond measure, the narrator picks up a gun and shoots it at the machine, destroying it. Tillinghast's house servants were attacked and killed by one such entity, and Tillinghast informs the narrator that it is right behind him. He also reveals that the effect works both ways, and allows the denizens of the alternate dimension to perceive humans. Tillinghast reveals that he has used his machine to transport two of his house servants into the overlapping plane of reality. From this perspective, he witnesses hordes of strange and horrific creatures that defy description.
Sharing the experience with Tillinghast, the narrator becomes cognizant of a translucent, alien environment that overlaps our own recognized reality. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.
The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast.
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