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The Terror - A Mystery
Paperback
HorrorMystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
ISBN13: 9781528704267
Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
Published: Mar 29 2018
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Silence falls over the countryside. The animals have organized. And they are hunting us.
The Terror is one of Arthur Machen's most chilling and atmospheric novels, published during the height of World War I. It is a story that transforms a national crisis into a profound cosmic mystery.
The narrative opens with a series of baffling and gruesome incidents sweeping across the British countryside, particularly in rural Wales. These are not acts of war or human crime, but unnatural attacks that are almost impossible to explain.
A government investigator is dispatched to uncover the source of this Terror. He slowly pieces together the unimaginable truth: the shock and omnipresent fear of the war has somehow broken the primal bond between man and beast, unleashing an atavistic intelligence in the animal kingdom. The creatures are no longer submissive; they have become the organized agents of a hidden, primordial force that intends to wipe out humanity.
The Terror is a unique work of existential and folk horror. It suggests that the true consequence of war is not just human loss, but a cosmic disruption that awakens the ancient, dark forces of the natural world against us.
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