Manly Wade Wellman 1 hr 38 min read

Learning she is not really Persil Mandifer's daughter, Enid feels as if she is drowning, and dreads why the strange, foreign-accented man, friend of the long-dead Aaron Burr, adopted her at all.

Manly Wade Wellman's 1939 Weird Tales serial blends Civil War-era historical horror with dark sorcery and a sinister family secret. Atmospheric, eerie, superbly told. Read it for classic supernatural horror from a master, steeped in American folklore and old evil.

In its time

Published in 1939, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 38 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

H. S. De Lay