Carlisle Schnitzer & John R. Speer 58 min read

On starless nights Pierre Soret creeps through London's darkest streets to hide his face, a boiling, seething mask of ruined flesh, and the terrible curse behind it.

John R. Speer and Carlisle Schnitzer's 1937 story is a lurid Weird Tales horror-fantasy. Atmospheric, grotesque, of its era. Read it for a dread-soaked pulp horror tale of a hideous affliction and the dark divinity behind it, steeped in the gothic gloom and feverish imagination of the classic weird-menace magazines.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage