Earl Peirce 25 min read

Arthur Duryea comes to meet the father he hasn't seen in twenty years, carrying the shadow of an ancient family curse of blood.

Earl Peirce's 1936 story, a Weird Tales favorite, builds atmospheric gothic horror around a hereditary doom that stalks the men of the Duryea line. Chilling, well-crafted pulp horror. Read it for a classic tale of inherited evil and a curse that will not release its grip on a family.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

25 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).