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_aWilliamson, Jack, _d1908-2006 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe mark of the monster |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-05-20 | ||
| 508 | _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"The mark of the monster by Jack Williamson" is a pulp horror short story written in the early 20th century. Set in a decaying Appalachian town steeped in occult lore, it follows a young man’s return to a place of brooding superstition, where whispered talk of a monstrous twin, a blood-smeared cellar, and a hilltop altar entwine love, fear, and the suggestion of inhuman inheritance. Claiborne Coe comes back to Creston to marry Valyne, despite a dire warning from his foster father, Doctor Kyle. After a brutish encounter with Jud Geer and glimpses of a chained “creature” in the cellar, Kyle convinces Clay he is half-demon with a monstrous twin. When the “monster” escapes and abducts Valyne to the forest altar, Clay fights it; Kyle’s rifle shot fells the beast. Valyne then reveals the ticking of Jud’s watch, exposing the “monster” as Jud in a mask. Kyle confesses a plot—abetted by his household—to terrorize Clay into suicide and seize his fortune, and when he turns his gun on them, Clay kills him in self-defense. Clay and Valyne leave Creston for good. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 |
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| 653 | _aHorror tales | ||
| 653 | _aVillages -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction | ||
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_aBrundage, Margaret, _d1900-1976 |
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_aDe Lay, H. S. _q(Harold Saylor), _d1876-1950 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N05193705/mode/2up | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76131 |
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