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Weird Tales, Apr 1939 p113
Weird Tales, Apr 1939 p113

"It was a head, but living, as though its owner had been buried to his bearded chin."

Fearful Rock

By MANLY WADE WELLMAN

An eery tale of the American Civil War, and the uncanny evil being who
called himself Persil Mandifer, and his lovely daughter —
a tale of dark powers and weird happenings

The Story Thus Far

SCENE, the Missouri-Arkansas border, in Civil War times, within the shadow of a natural obelisk called Fearful Rock, a deserted, haunted house. Enid Mandifer is sent there by her stepfather, Persil Mandifer, as a sacrifice to the Nameless One he worships. She encounters, instead, Lieutenant Kane Lanark, of the Union Army, who has camped his cavalry patrol at the demon-haunted house.

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This story began in WEIRD TALES for February.