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CORPSE-MASTER
By SEABURY QUINN
A vivid weird tale of corpses that walk in the night, of animated cadavers, and blood-freezing murders; a story that grips the reader by the artistic realism of its depiction and the limpid flow of the author's style; a fascinating tale of stark horror and eery happenings that send the chills up the reader's spine.
Through the tale run the delightful humor and the savage indignation of Jules de Grandin, the temperamental little French occultist and ghost-breaker, whose spectacular exploits have made ardent de Grandin fans of many thousands of readers. One of the very best of the de Grandin stories, "The Corpse-Master" Will be printed complete in the
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The abbot's face beamed with satisfaction.
"Nevertheless, " retorted the soldier, "it does not disprove my theory; otherwise, Calvary and the crucifixion were unnecessary, for we, the rabble, are very unworthy of Christ Our Lord 's sublimity!"
The abbot stepped back, his mouth agape.
"So——?" he managed to say.
"So, venerable brother," supplemented the other, as he fitted on his helmet, "my life is not my own, as I have made plain to you. It belongs to my people. And if God wills that I must lose it in my duty to them, why then—what is the expression?—Deus vult!"
Not long after, he had mounted his steed and was riding away into the storm.
The abbot gazed after him from his cell's window. After a time he ceased and slowly made for the table to proceed with his reading. He stopped—his breath stopped—Jesu Maria! What was that that he was seeing? ... It couldn't be! ... He was awake. He was sure of that!
"Brother!" he gasped; then a moment later: "Denarius!"
Stretched at full length on the bed was a human body. A corpse. The warrior's corpse. His brother . . .
Watch for this eery thriller!
THE GRAY KILLER
by Everil Worrell
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Through the wards of the hospital slithered the Gray Killer —a fascinating tale of utter horror by the author of "The Bird of Space"