Edgar Daniel Kramer 15 min read

A sinister visitor with cruel green eyes and a hypocrite's smile is bowed into a sun-flooded drawing-room by a terrified old butler who would sooner meet the Devil.

Edgar Daniel Kramer's 1937 story is an atmospheric pulp horror of menace, masks, and murder. Vivid, sinister, of its era. Read it for a shivery tale that opens on dread and a velvet-footed predator, from the pages of the classic horror pulps.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

15 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage