Project Gutenberg 2009-09-10 Public domain in the USA. 83 De Vet, Charles V. 1911 1997 DeVet, Charles V. Vet, Charles V. de Vet, Charles Vincent de Terry, W. E. 1921 1992 Terry, Willis E. Terry, Bill There is a Reaper ... Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "There is a Reaper ..." by Charles V. De Vet is a short science fiction story written in the early 1950s. The narrative delves into themes of mortality, the afterlife, and the psychological aspects of facing death. It presents a chilling exploration of what may come after life through the eyes of a man who plans to communicate with the dead. The story follows a wealthy man who, upon being diagnosed with only a month to live, concocts a plan to learn about the afterlife by poisoning a homeless man and engaging him in conversation as he dies. The dying man descends into a bleak realm where he constantly awaits a mysterious, malevolent presence. As the wealthy man desperately seeks to know what lies beyond death, he learns that he is not merely an observer but is intricately tied to the fate of the dying man, culminating in a haunting realization that they are waiting for him. This poignant twist emphasizes the inevitability of death and the existential dread that accompanies it, prompting readers to ponder their own mortality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Horror tales PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 35848 35841 2024-09-12T16:39:01.673073 2023-09-13T08:28:53.101631 text/html text/html 31697 2009-09-10T14:15:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 164284 2009-09-10T14:15:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 209601 2024-09-12T16:39:04.869023 application/epub+zip 208180 2024-09-12T16:39:02.916061 application/epub+zip 56144 2024-09-12T16:39:02.095044 application/epub+zip 324973 2024-09-12T16:39:06.391035 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 317671 2024-09-12T16:39:04.321024 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 126221 2022-09-14T03:45:05.333641 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 29445 29329 2024-09-12T16:39:01.483060 2023-09-13T08:28:52.935614 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 29283 2009-09-10T14:15:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 11266 2009-09-10T14:15:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19456 2024-09-12T16:39:06.523035 application/rdf+xml 12133 2024-09-12T16:39:02.441039 image/jpeg 3239 2024-09-12T16:39:02.273046 image/jpeg 209482 2024-09-12T16:39:01.685066 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog