Chains of the Living Dead

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Arthur Leo Zagat. Chains of the Living Dead

Chains of the Living Dead

Table of Contents

I. — HOME INVASION

II. — TERROR THAT WALKED BY NIGHT!

III. — HANDPRINTS OF HORROR

IV. — TRAIL OF DESPAIR

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V. — TEMPLE OF TORMENT

VI. SLAVES OF MADNESS

THE END

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Arthur Leo Zagat

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Laura tried to shrink back, but could not. Her hand gripped the curtain as if glued. Her muscles were beyond control. She knew now that the man outside was mad; stark, irretrievably mad. Prayers, pleas for mercy, could not penetrate that distorted brain. She was beyond all help, all human aid.

The madman whirled on bare, misshapen feet like a cat. His right hand, hidden in the shadows, swung into view. Great God in Heaven! The moon glinted with unholy glee on a broad band of greyish metal that encircled his powerful wrist, and sprayed in a shower of frozen light on the chain that dangled therefrom. The last link showed jagged, broken edges of metal where it had been snapped in two.

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