Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett, 1884 -1948) was a pioneer of dark fantasy, and this is perhaps her most accomplished and creepy book, a compactly written 50,000 word novel/novelette published as a serial in Argosy magazine in 1920.
The basic text was that of Dr Drib's book originally uploaded in 2007 to the LRF Library, to which I have restored italics, and also a missing word important to the text. The same single word is also missing from the Project Gutenberg Aust text. Instead, what appeared was this paragraph:
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I adapted the cover of the June 19, 1920 Argosy magazine which contained the first episode. The artist is unidentified.
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