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"Zombies! Corpses kept alive by hideous sorcery to work and toil without food or water or pay."

While Zombies Walked

By THORP McCLUSKY

A tale of romance and stark horror, of dead men who worked in the fields,
and an apostate preacher who sought love through witchcraft

The Packard roadster had left the lowland and was climbing into the hills. It was rough going; this back road was hardly more than two deep grass-grown ruts—the car barely crawled. Overhead the vivid greenery of the trees nearly met, shrouding, intensifying the heat.

Eileen's letter had brought Anthony Kent down the Atlantic seaboard, his heart

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