title: "The Dark Tower" and Other Stories
author:  C.S. Lewis 
description: An extension of Lewis's fantasies, this book includes six stories. "The Dark Tower" is a draft of a possible fourth volume to follow Lewis's adult science fiction trilogy. Two characters - Ransom and McPhee - appear again, and the story contains sequences of debate about matter in time and space.
zlib_text: **A bump in the night . . .**
  
  Lewis slid out of bed. As slowly and carefully as he could, he tiptoed to the
  door. He opened it, just as slowly and carefully. He didn’t open it far. Just
  a crack. He looked out.
  
  The hall was dark, except for a glimmering gray window down at the far end.
  But Lewis could hear something moving. And now he saw the faint, pale circle
  of a flashlight beam moving over the wallpaper. Frightened, Lewis pulled the
  door shut and then opened it just a crack. The flashlight beam had stopped.
  Now the figure with the flashlight brought his fist down on the wall—hard.
  Lewis heard little clots of plaster falling down into the space between the
  walls. The figure pounded again, and again. . . .
  
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  “Black magic against white, good against evil, the mood and suspense are
  artfully created and the illustrations exactly right for the eerie tale.”
  
  — _Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books_
  
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   **John Bellair