Book excerpt: John Pelan introduces this hard to find classic from Edmund Snell. For decades it's been sought after as a novel of Borneo, but it's actually a collection of somewhat related short stories by an author who knew quite a bit about the exotic lands he wrote about, in this case, Borneo. To help you visualize the setting of the stories, Ramble House artist, Gavin L. O'Keefe, has produced a wonderful mapback cover for the book. And to top it off, John has added another short story to the dozen previously found in the book, "The Black Spider." THE FINGER OF DESTINY THE MAGIC MOSQUITO THE GIFT OF THE GOD WAY BACK THE CHANCE FATE'S INSTRUMENT COULSON AND THE KERBAU THE MAN WHO STOLE THE HEAD THE CURE OF KOOMANIS LONELY VALLEY THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT HARI BESAR