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_aWard, Harold, _d1879-1950 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe life-eater |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-07-21 | ||
| 508 | _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"The life-eater by Harold Ward" is a pulp horror short story written in the early 20th century. Set in a Louisiana swamp village, it centers on a mysterious, vitality-sucking wraith and the occult struggle to banish it. In the village of La Foubelle, people die at night, their bodies shriveled as if drained of life. Doctor Hugo Lamontaine, a hard-drinking physician with deep occult knowledge, deduces that a malignant elemental has been conjured into the world through a human medium. Suspicion falls on the sinister Aaron Kronk, whose hypnotic power and stealthy visits coincide with fresh deaths. To save schoolmaster Noel Pelletier’s beloved Evelyn, Lamontaine uses the ailing dominie as bait, wards the room with iron, and battles the wraith with an iron pentagon, dispersing it at last. Kronk attacks and flees into the swamp, and Lamontaine later uncovers his motive: to terrorize the townsfolk into abandoning their homes so he can profit from draining the swamp. With the entity dispersed and the plot exposed, Evelyn is spared and the plague ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Co, 1937 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aHorror tales | ||
| 653 | _aLouisiana -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aSwamps -- Fiction | ||
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_aBrundage, Margaret, _d1900-1976 |
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_aNapoli, Vincent, _d1907-1981 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 | |
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