House of Living Death

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Arthur Leo Zagat. House of Living Death

House of Living Death

Table of Contents

II. — SCREAMING FACES

III. — WHIPS FOR THE MAD

IV. — SHANG!

V. — THE VOICE IN THE HALL

VI. — THE BECKONING HAND

VII. — BOTTOM OF HELL

VIII. — PERFECT TIMING

THE END

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Arthur Leo Zagat

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The wall to my left, some ten feet long, was lined with book-laden shelves. So was the one to my right, except that at its further end the line of shelving was broken by a door. I noticed a diagonal scratch across the bronze key-plate of that door. Afterwards I clung frantically to the memory of that scratch, pictured it again and again as I battled with horror. Over and over, a thousand times or more, I asked myself if any dream, any hallucination, could be as detailed as that.

Opposite me a window let light flood in on a massive desk that dwarfed the little man seated behind it. Avery Dunn was looking straight at me, his sallow face an expressionless mask. There was something faintly Mongolian about his features; a vague heightening of the cheekbones, an almost imperceptible slanting of the eyelids. And there was a peculiarly alien liquidity in his precise enunciation as he said, "I am glad you came directly from the ship, Mr. Armour."

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