Project Gutenberg 2024-05-11 Public domain in the USA. 147 Long, Frank Belknap 1903 1994 Senf, C. C. (Curtis Charles) 1873 1949 Senf, Curtis Charles The red fetish $aIndianapolis, IN :$bPopular Fiction Publishing Company, $c1929. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Red Fetish" by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. is a horror short story that was published in the early 1930s. It delves into themes of survival and the primal instinct in a desperate situation. The narrative unfolds on a deserted island, where two men find themselves battling starvation, fear, and each other in a chilling exploration of the human psyche under stress. In the story, Bill Cullen and Wellington Van Wyck are left stranded on an isolated island, facing an overwhelming thirst and the lurking fear of cannibals. Bill's physical strength diminishes, while Van Wyck's cowardice exacerbates their dire predicament. As their desperation escalates, they propose a dangerous swim to find safety, only to encounter not only the threat of cannibals but also man-eating sharks. The narrative takes a darker turn when Van Wyck meets a gruesome fate at the jaws of a shark, leading Bill into the clutches of the cannibals, who, surprisingly, thank him for a mysterious object that had come ashore before him. The story culminates in madness as Bill, horrified by the fate of his companion and his own predicament, becomes part of the very culture he feared. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240326121738long 1929 US Reading ease score: 84.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories Shipwreck survival -- Fiction Islands -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 54938 2025-07-29T07:08:19.423856 text/html 30333 2024-05-11T20:15:56 text/html 366893 2025-07-29T07:08:23.085847 application/epub+zip 365659 2025-07-29T07:08:21.058838 application/epub+zip 226121 2025-07-29T07:08:20.010877 application/epub+zip 1003362 2025-07-29T07:08:24.440819 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 996555 2025-07-29T07:08:22.479845 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 47693 2025-07-29T07:08:19.280888 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 27873 2024-05-11T20:15:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16481 2025-07-29T07:08:24.612814 application/rdf+xml 31792 2025-07-29T07:08:20.479858 image/jpeg 4995 2025-07-29T07:08:20.244857 image/jpeg 3053347 2025-07-29T07:08:19.452899 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia