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    G-r-r-r...!

    By Robert Donald Locke

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      G-r-r-r...! - Robert Donald Locke

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of G-r-r-r...!, by Roger Arcot

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: G-r-r-r...!

      Author: Roger Arcot

      Release Date: June 21, 2009 [EBook #29194]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK G-R-R-R...! ***

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      Roger Arcot explores the fringes of a really never forgotten world, the introduction to which is an aged manuscript De Necromantiae, and the wish, not too repressed, to pledge your soul to the Devil! There are many strange memories and unhappy frustrated souls in this Fantastic Universe of ours—strange and sinister memories and stranger urges, frightening urges that refuse to die in the heart of Brother Ambrose.

      g-r-r-r...!

      by ... ROGER ARCOT

      He had borne the thousand and one injuries with humility and charity. But the insults! These were more than he could suffer....

      Gr-r-r! There he goes again! Brother Ambrose could scarce restrain the hatred that seethed and churned in his breast, as his smallish eyes followed Brother Lorenzo headed once more for his beloved geraniums, the inevitable watering-pot gripped in both hands, the inevitable devotions rising in a whispered stream from his saintly lips. The very fact the man lived was a mockery to human justice: God's blood, but if thoughts could only kill.

      Ave, Virgo!

      The thousand and one injuries of Fray Lorenzo he had borne as a Christian monk should, with humility and charity. But the insults, aye, the insults to faith and reason! They were more than a generous

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