Just as the clock is striking midnight, a man steps out of his friends’ living room and into a world of two-dimensional objects for about two hours of adventures, but when he finally escapes back to his 3D world, little or no time has passed.
—Michael Main
“The first stroke of the elaborate electric-gong arrangement which Barton had had built into tthe clock, sounded out”

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  1. “The 32nd of May” by Paul Ernst , in Astounding Stories, April 1935.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Paul Ernst