Talk:Fear (Hubbard novella)

Hey
Hi fellas, just thought I'd stop by and say how great I thought this article was. I mean, I know not all these big shot wikipedia guys can appreciate the simple charms of a page like this, but you know, there are some of us out there who really love this stuff. We really do. Anyway, I wouldn't keep you guys for too long, I basically just wanted to say that I think you've all done a really great job and please know that you are all making a huge difference. Peace, Dave. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.181.150.120 (talk) 16:59, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Plot Totally Misleading
The plot as it's described in this article is totally misleading. The ending is totally false. At the end of the story we discover that the protagonist forgot (a case of temporary amnesia) he had killed his wife and his best friend in a moment of madness (the demons) and that in his hallucinations he has lived again moments of the crime (which took place in the four missing hours) in a twisted, oneiric form, so that the apparently fantastic events in the novelette all have a rational, psychiatric explanation, as it is made quite clear in the ending, when the protagonist confesses his crime to a cop and shows where the corpses are--and where his hat is. I'll change the plot outline if nobody objects to this in a few days' time.--93.40.132.141 (talk) 09:32, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Well please fix it then 202.78.240.7 (talk) 01:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Still no fix? --AppleDane (talk) 10:54, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Plot introduction
University professor James Lowry is a disbeliever in spirits or witches, or demons, so much so that he publishes an article in a newspaper denying the existence of them. He is warned of the possible repercussions by his friend Tommy Williams. That same spring evening his hat disappears. Lowry discovers that four hours of his life have gone missing. Lowry is pursued by an omnipotent evil force that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: "...if you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die..." Lowry is suspicious that Tommy may be having an affair with his wife, Mary, even in his dreams of demons. The story resolves itself as Lowry discovers that the world itself that he's been living in does not really exist.