Weird Tales/Volume 31/Issue 3/Like one, that on a lonesome road

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Weird Tales, Volume 31, Issue 3 (1938)
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Like one, that on a lonesome road" illustrated by Virgil Finlay
1368661Weird Tales, Volume 31, Issue 3 — "Like one, that on a lonesome road"1938Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Black and white artwork. A man in a suit walking down a country lane, looking ahead and to one side. Immediately behind him is a decomposing and flaming apparition of a dead man.
Black and white artwork. A man in a suit walking down a country lane, looking ahead and to one side. Immediately behind him is a decomposing and flaming apparition of a dead man.

Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.


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