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100 1 _aSpeer, John R.
_q(John Rawson),
_d1910-1953
245 1 4 _aThe carnal god
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 June 1937.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-03
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The carnal god by John R. Speer and Carlisle Schnitzer" is a weird‑fiction pulp horror novelette written in the late 1930s. The story centers on an occult cult in London led by a mesmerizing countess who serves an alien deity, and on the struggle to save a young woman marked for sacrificial rites. A disfigured scientist, Pierre Soret, warns Dr. Carl Fielding that his fiancée Ruth has been ensnared by the Countess Moonard’s cult of Moonere, which draws unearthly power from Sudre, a moon of a distant planet. Pierre reveals the temple’s star-glass that focuses deadly rays and an idol that becomes animate during rites. Using telepathy, a scrying “bowl,” and a counter‑ray, Pierre battles the cult from his hidden laboratory while Inspector Chadwick briefly falls under the countess’s spell. As the sacrificial night peaks, Pierre—dying under Sudre’s rays—guides Carl to the temple with a silver disk that reflects a fatal beam, melting the golden idol and driving the countess to destruction in her own fire. The temple collapses, the enthralled women are freed and age to their true years, and Ruth is saved. Pierre perishes, his voice fading after one last aid from beyond, and Carl and Ruth return to ordinary life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937
653 _aHorror tales
653 _aLondon (England) -- Fiction
653 _aCults -- Fiction
700 1 _aSchnitzer, Carlisle,
_d1911-2003
700 1 _aBrundage, Margaret,
_d1900-1976
700 1 _aDe Lay, H. S.
_q(Harold Saylor),
_d1876-1950
830 0 _aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76623
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