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The
Trail of the Cloven Hoof

By ARLTON EADIE

A standing man with an electric torch looks at the upper half of another man.
A standing man with an electric torch looks at the upper half of another man.

"One look was enough. I snapped off my flashlight and fled."


A startling weird mystery story, of strange deaths on the desolate Moor of Exham, and the mysterious creature known as "The terror of the Moor"


The Story Thus Far


While on a tramping vacation on Exmoor, Hugh Trenchard discovers an old recluse, Silas Marle, lying unconscious after having been attacked by a mysterious thing which, though speaking with a human voice, leaves behind it a trail of footprints shaped like a cloven hoof.

Seeking help at the nearest house, a private hospital, Hugh meets Professor Felger, the proprietor, a sinister figure whose features are hidden beneath a surgeon's gauze mask. The professor tries to prevent Hugh phoning the police, but he gets the message through by a stratagem, afterward making his escape.

Ronnie Brewster, a former fellow-stu-

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