Couverture de Weird Tales, juin 1928 — C. C. Senf · Public domain · Commons
Incipit
“They were slithering shadows of red madness.” 1. The Shadow on the Chimney There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear. I was not alone, for foolhardiness was not then mixed with that love of the grotesque and the terrible which has made my career a series of quests for strange horrors in literature and in life. With me were two faithful and muscular men for whom I had sent when the time came; men long associated with me in my ghastly explorations because of their peculiar fitness. We had started quietly from the v …
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Version transcrite — Weird Tales, juin 1928 (vol. 11, n° 6). (Le numéro dont Wikisource donne le texte ; ce n’est pas toujours la première parution.)
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Thématiques — L’hérédité comme malédiction, La dégénérescence rurale