# Clicking red heels

Author: Ernst, Paul, 1899-1985; Brundage, Margaret, 1900-1976 [Illustrator]; Finlay, Virgil, 1914-1971 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76644

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Clicking+red+heels+Ernst&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There are two kinds of fear. There is fear of the known--terror of death or disease or accident, or of social consequences of wrong actions. This is bad enough, but it is a little thing compared to fear of the unknown. _That_ is the horror that freezes your brain and stops your breath in your throat; _that_ is the terror that wrings sweat in icy drops from your clammy skin. Somewhere near you a black force lurks, some shadow from a hell incomprehensible to mortal mind, some _thing_ from another world which looms over you and threatens you with a menace all the more awful for being unguessable. It is then that you go mad and babble in your frightful torment of danger--and cannot even say w...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/clicking-red-heels-76644/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/clicking-red-heels-76644/chapters/2/index.md)