Fiend Without a Face

At the edge of the Canadian prairies, an isolated U.S. airbase hums with the secretive pulse of experimental nuclear power. The stark, snow‑dusted landscape is punctuated by the low‑slung radar towers of Interceptor Command Experimental Station No. 6, a facility whose very existence has begun to sour the relationship between the nearby farming community and the foreign soldiers who tend it. Rumors of invisible radiation and unexplained disappearances drift through the townsfolk like cold wind, giving the region a lingering sense of unease that feels both modern and deeply primal.

The military’s response arrives in the form of a disciplined officer tasked with untangling the mounting panic. Jeff Cummings, a captain with a reputation for methodical investigation, steps onto the scene carrying the weight of official duty and a quiet curiosity about the strange undercurrents that have taken hold of the valley. His methodical approach clashes with the villagers’ growing distrust, setting up a tense dance between authority and rumor as he begins to probe the source of the community’s fear.

Beyond the base’s perimeter lives a reclusive scholar whose work borders on the metaphysical. R. E. Walgate, a retired British scientist, has turned his attention to the limits of the human mind, experimenting with ideas that blur the line between thought and physical reality. His solitary existence and unconventional research make him an intriguing, if unsettling, focal point for Cummings’s inquiry. The two men, each disciplined in his own realm—one by military protocol, the other by scientific obsession—find their paths converging amid a landscape riddled with speculation, hinting at forces that may be far beyond ordinary explanation.

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