The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories

A collection of luminous, strange tales that transport readers to the mystical East of the early twentieth century. L. Adams Beck writes with an occultist's fascination and a poet's ear for prose, weaving stories where the veil between the physical and spiritual grows dangerously thin. The title novella, 'The Ninth Vibration,' follows the Englishman Ormond as he journeys from Simla into the Himalayas seeking the legendary House in the Woods, inhabited by the mysterious pandit Rup Singh. Along the treacherous mountain paths, Ormond encounters a veiled woman whose very presence seems to bend reality, drawing him toward revelations about love, loss, and enlightenment that defy rational explanation. The stories that follow, from the romantic mysticism of 'The Interpreter' to the tragic beauty of 'The Building of the Taj Mahal' and the Japan-set 'How Great is the Glory of Kwannon!', each function as a portal into worlds where color, sound, and spiritual vibration carry hidden meanings. These are tales for readers who yearn for a more magical world, where the exotic is neither cheapened nor sanitized but rendered with genuine awe and longing.