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Good horror stories are rarer than almost any other kind of fiction. When the blurb-writer for The Werewolf of Paris wanted a horror-classic to compare it with, he hit on Bram Stoker's famed Dracula (1899). still the seldom-disputed favorite in its field. Author Endore's discursive narrative does not keep up to Dracula's plane but it has its moments...
August Gobel, stoker, and Adolph Weigand. policeman, sat in the boiler room of the Christian Feigenspan ice plant at Newark, N. J. late one night last week. August Gobel knew policemen and liked them. He had spent several weeks in jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal...
...disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took...
When the tougher grind of match play began the next day, the younger golfers suffered retribution for their medal performances. Ouimet, playing like an auto-matic stoker, put out George Voigt 6 & 5. Voigt was one under par for the first nine holes - and 4 down. Ouimet had played the nine in 30. A young Yale player, Sidney W. Noyes, pressed Ouimet in the afternoon but was put out 1 down...
...Carlson was born to a healthy Minnesota seamstress and a factory stoker. As often occurs, something had happened to his brain. Professor Bronson Crothers, Harvard neurologist & pediatrician, tells his students: "It is probable that injury of the central nervous system during birth, or immediately thereafter, accounts for more than half of the deaths of viable babies. Furthermore, it is almost certain that such injuries are responsible for the disability of more children suffering from organic diseases of the nervous system than any other single etiologic factor except infantile paralysis...