Where the World is Quiet
by Henry Kuttner
This story appears in an issue of Fantastic Universe with a remarkable lineup
including Frank Belknap Long, Philip José Farmer, Jack Williamson, Philip
K. Dick, Richard Matheson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Bloch. As for
Kuttner’s contribution, a crippled priest enlists the aid of an adventurous
anthropologist, Señor White, to track the fate of seven young girls who disappeared into
the Cordilleras of eastern Peru in the direction of the great peak, Hauscan. Do
anthropologists know anything about time-slips? (Yes, just a slight time-travel
connection.)
So, even now I do not know all that lay behind the terror in that Peruvian valley. This
much I learned: the Other, like Lhar and her robot, had been cast adrift by a time-slip,
and thus marooned here. There was no way for it to return to its normal Time-sector. It
had created the fog-wall to protect itself from the direct rays of the sun, which
threatened its existence.
“Where the World is Quiet” by Henry Kuttner, Fantastic Universe, May 1954.