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Horror tale set in underground vaults, probably in Europe. Tells of the fiendish torture of the narrator by the evil Zaroni who is himself destroyed by the fate prepared for his victim. Includes an account of the terrible deaths of the narrator's parents and the ingenious employment of their remains in the narrator's sufferings. Macarbe and somewhat disjointed story; full of deformity and cruelly calculated revenge. (PB)
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See 'Answers to Correspondents' 23:274 (March 1888) p. 405 for editor's reply to a reader's (W. Neale) complaint of the abruptness of the tale as containing neither 'sense nor meaning'. (PB)
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