The Shaver Mystery Volume Three offers up two more tales from Richard S. Shaver of his revelatory look into the vast underground which sits beneath us all. The folks at Armchair Fiction had only intended to do two volumes dedicated to Shaver's works, but the stuff sold so magnificently that they couldn't help but to continue. It's a repetition of the situation when Ray Palmer realized he had a tremendous moneymaker on his hands way back when Amazing Stories first presented Shaver's yarns to the world.
After an introductory letter from Shaver and an introduction by Ray Palmer we get the story "Thought Records of Lemuria". In this one our hero is none other than Richard Shaver himself and we are to presume I guess that the truth of this story will be enhanced by him using his real name. He becomes aware of thoughts in his head from mysterious sources and meets a woman named Nydia. She introduces him to devices which allow a person to see the past and that's just what "Shaver" does in this story. He mentally travels into a far distant time and hooks up with versions of the Norse Gods.
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"The Masked World" is a story of an underworld stronghold which is ruled by a despot. We follow several people who work together at great risk to slay the tyrant. They seek to use poison, a very special kind of poison. The villains in this one are really despicable, using people like cattle and using violence on helpless folks as entertainment. In Shaver's universe the hero often wins, but often at great cost.
Armchair Fiction knew a good thing when they had it. The next volume of the series comes around next time.
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