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Mistress of the Beast

By Arthur Leo Zagat

Four dudes get their boats swept away in the fog of Tallahawn Swamp and end up stuck on a cursed hummock called Dead Hog. One of them already knows the place is bad news. Then this girl comes sliding out of the mist in wet, torn rags that barely cover anything, soft voice, dark eyes. All good, right? Well, then she starts picking them off one by one. She doesn’t just kill them. She changes them.

First published
1935
Original publication
Horror Stories
Type of work
Short story
Genre
Weird Fiction & Horror
Added to Moxon
2026-10-23

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