Richard Sharpe Shaver was an American writer and artist who achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazine
Shaver's first published work, the novella "I Remember Lemuria", was the cover story in the March 1945 Amazing Stories
Shaver's novella "Thought Records of Lemuria", his second published story, took the cover of the June 1945 Amazing Stories
Shaver's run of Amazing cover stories continued in September 1945 with "Cave City of Hel"
James Tilly Matthews was a British merchant who was committed to the Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1797 after developing politically charged delusions which led him to disrupt sessions of the House of Com
Richard Sharpe Shaver
…they spied on people and projected tormenting thoughts and voices into our minds (reminiscent of schizophrenia's "influencing machines" such as the air loom). Deros could be blamed for nearly all misfortunes, from minor "accidental" injuries or illnesses to airplane crashes and catastrophic natural disasters…
Matthews's illustration of the Air Loom