Journey Through the Night (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Heinz Landwirth
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: After World War II
- Setting: A train traveling through France
- Principal Characters: An unnamed traveler, His fellow passenger
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Murder or homicide, Violence, Fear, Trains, Holocaust, Jewish, Horror, Cannibalism, Night, Tools
- Locales: France
The Story
Between three and four o’clock in the morning, on a train traveling between Nice and Paris, two Austrians are seated opposite each other in a locked compartment, to which the narrator's fellow passenger has somehow obtained a key. Describing his unexpected companion, the narrator uneasily likens him to a seal and wonders why he does not show his tusks. His partly comical, partly anxious description grows menacing when he pictures the contents of the other's small black suitcase. He correctly conjectures that it contains carpenter's tools, a hammer, saw, chisel, and...
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