(This is the 1975 First Edition, with dust jacket, some light pencil marks inside cover only.)
The book opens with a quarryman who has just murdered his wife by cutting her head off surrendering himself in fear and in trembling -- swearing that the sever head spoke to him!
And this is just the beginning of a remarkable occult novel.
There follows a horrifying episode in the French Revolution during the darkest days of the Terror, and the question arises was Doctor Guillotine really right when he claimed his invention provided a less painful form of execution than hanging?
We witness the desecration of the tombs of the French Kings at St. -Denis in 1794 and return with a hangman to the gallows on which he has dispatched a victim only to see him become the hanged man himself!
Dumas paints a vivid picture of horrific and supernatural happenings that makes this book a worthy addition to this outstanding library of the occult.
