The Terror
by Arthur Machen
Publisher: McBride & Co. 1917
ISBN/ASIN: 1920414347
Number of pages: 306
Description:
During the First World War in Britain a series of unexplained deaths and murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal.
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