G-r-r-r...! by Robert Donald Locke
Fray Ambrose has borne a thousand injuries with Christian charity, but the insults are more than a monk can suffer, and if only thoughts could kill, Brother Lorenzo would be doomed.
Robert Donald Locke's 1953 story spins wry horror-fantasy from one monk's seething, murderous exasperation with another. Sharp, darkly funny golden-age tale. Read it for a wicked little story about piety, envy, and the deadly power of a truly hateful thought.
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Where to Start: 1950s SF
- In its time
- Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.
- Reading it
- 12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).
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