Bubba enters the scene as Edward grabs Katherine and rips off her clothes, preparing to eat her mind and take her to the world of beyond. But while everyone is sleeping, Katherine gets back up to feel the pleasure from the machine and turns it back on, bringing forth a worried Crawford and the now almost unrecognizable Edward who is mutated and covered in slime. They all go to sleep, each with a headache. Katherine - who insists that the Resonator could possibly cure schizophrenia - suggests that they turn the machine back on, but Bubba and Crawford disagree. It is now morning, and the three discuss the creatures over breakfast.
Crawford shuts off The Resonator, making Pretorius and the creatures vanish. Pretorius' body gruesomely breaks apart when Crawford attempts to touch him, leading Bubba to draw his gun and fire at the mad doctor. A severely deformed Pretorius, still alive, appears in the attic and tells the trio of a world beyond that is more pleasurable than normal reality. Crawford reactivates the machine, which causes more creatures to appear. Upon returning to the house, Katherine and Crawford rebuild the Resonator. They are accompanied by Detective Bubba Brownlee, who investigated Pretorius' death.
Katherine, convinced of Crawford's innocence, decides to let him return to the house in order to show her the Resonator. After Crawford gives his account of Pretorius' death, Katherine conducts a brain scan and notice that Crawford's pineal gland has grown. 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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