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By GANS T. FIELD

A novel of a hideous, stark honor that struck during a spirit seance—a tale of terror and sudden death, and the frightful thing that laired in the Devil's Croft

The Story Thus Far:

ALBOT WILLS, the narrator, is a former stage magician. Skeptical of psychic phenomena, he goes with Doctor Zoberg to an isolated hamlet, where, says Zoberg, lives a medium who will prove the case for spiritism.

The medium is an attractive girl, Susan Gird. At a séance, a bestial shape appears in the darkened room and kills John Gird, the medium's father. The town