No reader is likely to forget the occupants of The Aquarium, or the supernatural horror of The Unpleasantness at Carver House which deserves permanence as a contemporary classic in its genre. The psychological shock of The Cocomaque is as memorable as the awesome vision of The White Pinnacle, and the probing search in The Random Quantity has its counterpart in the spectacular bizarrerie of The Player at Yellow Silence. Whether in the brief scope of Sequence or the longer haunting of The Singleton Barrier, Carl Jacobi is always an artist at story-telling.