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100 1 _aWilliamson, Jack,
_d1908-2006
245 1 4 _aThe mark of the monster
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937
653 _aHorror tales
653 _aVillages -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
700 1 _aBrundage, Margaret,
_d1900-1976
700 1 _aDe Lay, H. S.
_q(Harold Saylor),
_d1876-1950
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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