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After two men vanish following a mysterious visitor, their sudden reappearance prompts a recounting of an expedition to a mountain that leads into a hidden underground realm. The narrative follows their descent through chasms and labyrinths, encounters with monstrous and hybrid beings, uncanny spectacles such as a golden city and moving, gorgonic horrors, and clashes with angelic and demonic figures, as they struggle to survive and to understand the realm's strange inhabitants and cosmic implications. The structure alternates investigation, episodic underground encounters, and reflective passages that probe the limits of natural explanation.

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Title: Drome

Author: John Martin Leahy

Release date: September 24, 2023 [eBook #71716]

Language: English

Original publication: Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc, 1925

Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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Drome

By John Martin Leahy

Illustrated By John Martin Leahy

FANTASY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
Los Angeles, California

Copyright 1952 By John Martin Leahy
Copyright 1925 By Weird Tales Magazine

Manufactured in the U. S. A.

[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Contents

  Preface
  Prolegomenon
1The Mysterious Visitor
2What He Told Us
3The Mystery of Old He
4"Voices"
5"Drome!"
6Again!
7"And Now Tell Me!"
8"Drome" Again
9"To My Dying Hour"
10On The Mountain
11The Tamahnowis Rocks
12We Enter Their Shadow
13"I Thought I Heard Something"
14The Way To Drome
15The Angel
16"Are We Entering Dante's Inferno Itself?"
17Like Baleful Eyes!
18"That's Where They Are Waiting For Us!"
19The Angel And Her Demon
20The Attack
21Into The Chasm
22What Did It Mean?
23That We Only Knew The Secret
24What Next?
25The Labyrinth—Lost
26Through The Hewn Passage
27The Monster
28I Abandon Hope
29The Ghost
30The Moving Eyes
31"Gogrugron!"
32"Lepraylya!"
33Face To Face
34Another!
35A Scream and—Silence
36Gorgonic Horror
37As We Were Passing Underneath
38Something Besides Madness
39The Golden City
40Before Lepraylya
41A Human Raptor
42He Strikes
43Drorathusa
44We See The Stars

"For there is one descent into this region."—Josephus: Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades.