Harold Ward 32 min read

Death stalks the swamp-edge village of La Foubelle night after night, leaving its victims shriveled and deflated, a dark, formless terror the terrified townsfolk call 'the sickness without sickness.'

Harold Ward's 1937 story is a lurid weird-menace horror tale. Eerie, atmospheric, of its era. Read it for a dread-soaked pulp shocker of an unseen, life-draining horror preying on a Louisiana bayou village, told with the feverish menace and mounting terror that made the weird-menace magazines a staple of 1930s horror.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage