Lair of the Snake Girl

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Arthur Leo Zagat. Lair of the Snake Girl

Lair of the Snake Girl

Table of Contents

I. — DEATH SQUEEZES

II. — DEATH FROM THE SKY

III. — SPOOR OF THE SERPENT

IV. — CRIPPLE'S COURAGE

V. — THE SERPENT'S LAIR

VI. — TRAPPED

VII. — TIGHTENING COILS

VIII. — DREAD METAMORPHOSIS

IX. — THE END—PERHAPS

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EPILOGUE

EDITOR'S NOTE

THE LETTER

THE CLIPPING

EDITOR'S NOTE

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THE END

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Arthur Leo Zagat

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Consciousness of peril sloughed from me the palsy of my illness, and I knew my muscles were once more coiled springs, ready for instant action. My every sense was keenly alive to locate and combat the imminent threat. The sound of my approach must have frightened the killer from its prey—the crushed youth—but it was lurking now in the gloomy underbrush, watching its chance to spring upon another victim—me...

Old Mountain's flank rose steeply above me, its shadows impenetrable to my staring eyes. The odor of needle-carpeted earth, of rotting wood and putrescent fungi, breathed down from it; and its silence, after that single warning rustle, was unbroken. There was a strange, foreboding quality to that hush, as though the murk and the soundlessness cloaked the very essence of fear, as though nature itself crouched beneath some overhanging terror.

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