The Terror: A Mystery
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About This Book
The Terror (1917): short horror novel. Rural supernatural horror set in wartime Britain, where a series of unexplained countryside murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible.The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal. . . . I took a tram to the location of the disaster; a raw and hideous shed with a walled yard about it, and a shut gate. The roof was quite undamaged -- this had had been a strange accident. There had been an explosion of sufficient vi...
Chapters (18)
- THE TERROR
- A MYSTERY
- AUTHOR OF "THE BOWMEN"
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. The Coming of the Terror
- CHAPTER II. Death in the Village
- CHAPTER III. The Doctor’s Theory
- CHAPTER IV. The Spread of the Terror
- CHAPTER V. The Incident of the Unknown Tree
- CHAPTER VI. Mr. Remnant’s Z Ray
- CHAPTER VII. The Case of the Hidden Germans
- CHAPTER VIII. What Mr. Merritt Found
- CHAPTER IX. The Light on the Water
- CHAPTER X. The Child and the Moth
- CHAPTER XI. At Treff Loyne Farm
- CHAPTER XII. The Letter of Wrath
- CHAPTER XIII. The Last Words of Mr. Secretan
- CHAPTER XIV. The End of the Terror
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