Satan's Scalpel

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Arthur Leo Zagat. Satan's Scalpel

Satan's Scalpel

Table of Contents

I. — APE ATTACK

II. — THE HEADLESS CORPSE

III. — TERROR AT THE CROSSROADS

IV. — SEAN O'FLAHERTY'S DOOM

V. — FLIGHT THROUGH THE TREES

VI. — MAN INTO BEAST

VII. — THE HELL-SURGEON'S LUST

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VIII. — DEATH AND HORROR BLENDED

THE END

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Arthur Leo Zagat

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Clamor beat about Dan. Shouts, a woman's scream, were suddenly swallowed, blotted out, by an abysmal, thunderous roar that filled the tent with sound almost tangible, that blasted its hearers with devastating terror. The ape whirled on its tormentor. The out lash of its colossal arm was the lightning strike of a rattlesnake, and Zortal's whip was in the grip of a black, gnarled paw—was wrenched from the trainer's grip. The beast crouched, pounced. Zortal went down under a grunting, snarling tornado of hairy fury, and the flash of green silk was gone.

Dan King was somehow in the ring. He was tugging frantically at a pole at the top of which a torch flared. A shriek burbled in his ears, a shriek of purest agony. The rod came away in King's hands and he whirled, threw himself at the monstrous, snarling simian. His extemporary weapon pounded down and flame splashed on tossing, red-brown shagginess. Burned hair, frying flesh, stung its nostrils.

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