They Twinkled Like Jewels

© 1954 by Philip Jose Farmer


Creepy. Creepy. Creepy. Creeeeeeeeepy.

A much needed shot of adrenaline after my ten-week tour of Farmer’s The World of Tiers series. This mid-length short story (25 pages) packed more punch than the entire previous five PJF books combined. And when I say it was creepy, I’m talking old, classic Stephen King creepy (I immediately placed “They Twinkled Like Jewels” in King’s masterpiece, Night Shift, as I read it). Images of wasps and caterpillars and old albino men whose eyes you never quite see behind their red-tinted glasses. Shivers.

Grade: A+