Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber

. and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blacknesses had told of the presence of consciousness and will. _The Haunter of the Dark, Howard Phillips Lovecraft._

With a sickening ultimate plunge, that seemed to plumb in instants distances greater than the diameter of the cosmos -- a plunge in which more than flesh and bones were stripped away, transformed -- Oktav followed his summoner into a region of not only visual night.