Earl Peirce

Earl Peirce
Earl Peirce Jr. was an American writer primarily known for his contributions to the pulp magazine "Weird Tales" during the 1930s. He often wrote in the horror and supernatural fiction genres, with stories like "Doom of the House of Duryea" and "The Last Horror" gaining attention. His work is characterized by its dark, atmospheric storytelling, often involving themes of ancestral curses and supernatural vengeance. Though his writing career was relatively brief, his contributions helped shape early American weird fiction.

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Arthur Duryea, a young, handsome man, came to meet his father for the first time in twenty years. As he strode into the hotel lobby—long strides which had the spring of elastic in them—idle eyes lifted to appraise him, for he was an impressive figure, somehow grim with exaltation. The desk clerk looked up with his habitual smile of expectation; how-do-you-do-Mr.-so-and-so, and his fingers strayed... more...

What strange compulsion drove an ordinarily gentle and cultured man, on onenight of each week, to roam the city streets andcommit a ghastly crime? I am writing this account of my friend Jason Carse in the interests of both justice and psychiatry, and perhaps of demonology as well. There is no greater proof of what I relate than the sequence of murders which so recently shocked this city, the newspaper... more...