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The Unspeakable Feast

The Citadel of Fear

By Francis Stevens  

25 Aug, 2024

Because My Tears Are Delicious To You

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Francis Stevens’ 1918 The Citadel of Fear is a stand-alone lost-race dark fantasy.

Determined to find his fortune, American Archer Kennedy recruits a much younger ally, stalwart Irishman Colin O’Hara. Ignoring every warning uttered by Indigenous Mexican locals, the pair march off across an inhospitable desert towards Collados del Demonio — Hills of the Fiend — where Kennedy is certain fortune awaits.

Fortune does await… of a sort.

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