The Other One by A. H. Gibson

<p><em>A routine bank delivery turns into a night of sinister secrets when a young clerk visits a wealthy recluse in the lonely hills of West Virginia. What he discovers in the cellar — and later inside a wine cask — reveals a decade-old revenge no one imagined. The Other One by A. H. Gibson.</em> That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.</p><br><p>This story by A. H. Gibson delivers the kind of eerie, slow-building tension that early pulp fiction did best. There are no aliens or machines, just good old fashioned pulp fiction.</p><br><p>We know very little about A. H. Gibson, whose story appeared in <em>The Black Cat</em> magazine in the late 1800s — a publication renowned for its strange, psychological, and macabre fiction. Though Gibson never achieved fame, The Other One proves why forgotten writers from the early pulp era deserve rediscovery. It stands as a perfect example of what “lost” truly means — a dark gem waiting to be found again.</p><br><p>From the second issue of <em>The Bla...