By: Van Tassel Sutphen

The girl’s eyes swept him approvingly.

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The Shining One makes no bargains.”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The sentinels of the Shining One are faithful to their duty.”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The building’s ground-plan bore a fanciful resemblance to the shape of a flat-iron.”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“A woman cannot be moved about like a piece of furniture.”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

Men had tamed the lightning and bade it speak their will.

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“You are not of the children of the Doomsmen.”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

At last he stood within Doom the Forbidden.

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

Even more precious than the pistol and binoculars were his books…

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

Doomsman and Stockader were hardly to be told apart.

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“And you have been in Doom — in the city itself?”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“Quinton Edge! Ah, yes; he would remember that face and name.”

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It is possible that mankind may exist in a degraded state…

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

It was the end of all things.

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“They have come — the Doomsmen?”