Project Gutenberg 2024-06-28 Public domain in the USA. 120 Sharkey, Jack 1931 1992 Sharkey, John Michael Summers, Leo 1925 1985 Summers, L.R. Summers, L. R. Summers, Leo Ramon The man who was pale $aNew York, NY :$bZiff-Davis Publishing Company, $c1959. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Man Who Was Pale" by Jack Sharkey is a short story written in the late 1950s, originally published in Fantastic Science Fiction Stories. This tale blends elements of horror and dark humor, focusing on the peculiar interactions between a kind-hearted yet overly concerned landlady and her mysterious tenant, Vandor Thobal. The story explores themes of fear, curiosity, and the unknown, as well as the lengths to which one might go to ensure their own comfort—or survival. In the story, Mrs. Tibbets, a worry-prone landlady, rents out rooms in her large house to tenants in need of shelter, one of whom is the unnervingly pale Vandor Thobal. Thobal's odd habits and nocturnal lifestyle lead to Mrs. Tibbets's escalating concern, particularly as she notices strange occurrences around him and hears rumors of mysterious health crises in the neighborhood. Despite her apprehensions, she tries to help him, eventually discovering that Thobal harbors a darker secret linked to his unearthly appearance and his attachment to a peculiar wooden box. The climax reveals that Thobal is not as he seems, leading to a startling and unsettling conclusion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240507070610sharkey 1959 US Reading ease score: 84.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories Fantasy fiction Horror tales Landlord and tenant -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour 49726 2025-06-29T08:32:27.410750 text/html 25154 2024-07-11T11:21:16 text/html 271882 2025-06-29T08:32:30.276798 application/epub+zip 270648 2025-06-29T08:32:28.584713 application/epub+zip 170972 2025-06-29T08:32:27.857740 application/epub+zip 644603 2025-06-29T08:32:31.529761 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 637188 2025-06-29T08:32:29.817775 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 42109 2025-06-29T08:32:27.272803 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22273 2024-07-11T11:21:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17136 2025-06-29T08:32:31.665718 application/rdf+xml 27580 2025-06-29T08:32:28.190763 image/jpeg 4631 2025-06-29T08:32:28.022722 image/jpeg 1037544 2025-06-29T08:32:27.427755 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia