The Monster Men
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Description
Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel The Monster Men lists seventeen chapters before Chapter 1, The Rift, begins. Titles such as Beauty and the Beast, The Soul of Number 13, Into Savage Borneo, and Man or Monster? sketch its direction. The opening scene is grim and secretive from the first line.
A man drops the last fragment of a dismembered body into a small vat of nitric acid meant to destroy evidence that could hang him. He collapses at his great teak desk, shaking, dry-eyed, and sweating as sobs rack him. Footsteps on the stair to his workshop bring him terrified to his feet, staring at the locked and bolted door. The gentle knock, when it comes, carries a girl's sweet voice calling Daddy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 316 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |