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Download or read book The Fatal Move, and Other Stories written by Frederick William O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title story is a conte cruel involving a romantic triangle, a game of chess, and an electrocution. The next three are supernatural tales with medical and antiquarian backgrounds. The fifth is a detective story with an antiquarian and occult setting and a rationalized ending. The last is a humorous of tale of a future, Sovietized Britain. Pleasantly written stories, showing evident knowledge of medical, academic and Eastern milieus, but without much dramatic punch. [Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 49].