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Chessboard Planet by Lewis Padgett

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Chessboard Planet
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Publisher: The Galaxy Publishing Corporation
Number of pages: 130

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It concerns Robert Cameron, trained in applied psychology, who finds himself being driven insane by a strange, unfathomable force. As an experienced psychometrician he fights the terrifying hallucinations (a doorknob opens a blue eye and looks at him). He knows his job is vital.

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