Crawling Madness

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Arthur Leo Zagat. Crawling Madness

Crawling Madness

Table of Contents

I. — TERROR ON THE HIGHWAY

II — THE CRAWLERS

III. — THE WHIP

IV. — WHERE HORROR FED

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V. — DESPAIR UNDERGROUND

VI. — THE CRAWLERS CLOSE IN

THE END

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Arthur Leo Zagat

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Ann saw the man clearly. The grisly fingers by which the rag-garmented, dust-greyed apparition was suspended from the catapulting vehicle seemed to probe her brain with horror. Skeleton-thin, he streamed out behind the hurtling lorry like a bedraggled pennant; whatever of clothing had covered his pipe-stem, bounding legs was torn away and they were greyed to the hue of putrescent bone. His feet, flesh-stripped as they dragged through the dirt of the turnpike, trailed two lines of scarlet blood.

Then the truck was gone. Only a low-lying band of drifting dust-cloud and two scars on the desert's silvered surface showed that it had even been. Two scars between which thirsty sand drank red moisture, till no trace remained to testify that the grisly figure she had seen, or thought she had seen, was real.

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