Fritz Leiber - Midnight in the Mirror World
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From Fritz Leiber’s
The Mind Spider and Other Stories
MIDNIGHT IN THE
MIRROR WORLD
Fritz Leiber
As the dock downstairs began to clang out midnight's
twelve strokes, Giles Nefandor glanced into one of the
two big mirrors between which he was passing on his
nightly trip, regular as clockwork, from the telescopes on
the roof to the pianos and chessboards in the living room.
What he saw there made him stop and bunk and stare.
He was two steps above the mid-stair landing, where the
great wrought-iron chandelier with its freight of live and
dead electric bulbs swung m the dull fierce gusts of
wind coming through the broken, lead-webbed, dramond-
paned windows. It swung like a pendulum—a wilder yet
more ponderous pendulum than that in the tall clock
twanging relentlessly downstairs. He stayed aware of its
menace as he peered in the mirror.
Since there was a second mirror behind him, what he
saw in the one he faced was not a single reflection of him-
self, but many, each smaller and dimmer than the one in
front of it—a half-spread stack of reflections going off to-
ward infinity. Each reflection, except the eighth, showed
against a background of mirror-gloom only his dark lean
aquiline face, or at least the edge of it—from bucket-size
down to dime-size—peering back at him intently from un-
der its sleek crown of black, silver-shot hair.
But in the eighth reflection his hair was wildly dis-
ordered and his face was leaden-green, gape-jawed, and
bulging-eyed with horror.
Also, his eighth reflection was not alone. Beside it was
a thin black figure from which a ribbony black arm
reached out and lay on his reflected shoulder. He could
see only the edge of the black figure—most of it was hid-
den by the reflected gilt mirror frame—but he was sure it
was thin.
The look of horror on his face in that reflection was so
intense and so suggestive of strangulation that he clutched
at his throat with both hands.
All his reflections, from the nearly life-size giants to the
Lilliputians, copied this sudden gesture—except the eighth.
The eleventh stroke of midnight resounded brassily. An
especially fierce gust of wind blew the chandelier closer
to him so that one of its black hook-fingered arms ap-
proached his shoulder and he cringed away from it before
he recognized it for the familiar object it was. It-should
have been hung higher, he was such a tall man, and he
should have had the window repaired, but his head missed
the chandelier except when the wind blew hard and after
he'd been unable to find a craftsman who could work
leaded glass, he had not bothered about either chore.
The twelfth stroke clanged.
When he looked into the mirror the next instant, all
strangeness was gone. His eighth reflection was like the
rest. All his reflections were alike, even the dimmest most
distant ones that melted into mirror smoke. And there was
no sign of a black figure in any one of them, although he
peered until his vision blurred.
He continued downstairs, choosing a moment when the
chandelier was swinging away from him. He went immedi-
ately to his Steinway and played Scriabin preludes and
sonatas until dawn, fighting the wind with them until it
slunk away then analysed chess positions in the latest
Russian tournament until the oppressive daylight had-
wearied him enough for sleep. From time to time he
thought about what he had glimpsed in the mirror, and
each time it seemed to him more likely that the disordered
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