Project Gutenberg 2025-08-03 Public domain in the USA. 255 Speer, John R. (John Rawson) 1910 1953 Speer, John Rawson Schnitzer, Carlisle 1911 2003 Schnitzer, Carlisle Huebner Brundage, Margaret 1900 1976 Brundage, M. De Lay, H. S. (Harold Saylor) 1876 1950 DeLay, H. S. Lay, H. S. De Lay, H. S. de DeLay, Harold Lay, Harold S. De Lay, Harold Saylor De The carnal god $aIndianapolis, IN :$bPopular Fiction Publishing Company, $c1937. Produced from Weird Tales June 1937. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The carnal god by John R. Speer and Carlisle Schnitzer" is a weird‑fiction pulp horror novelette written in the late 1930s. The story centers on an occult cult in London led by a mesmerizing countess who serves an alien deity, and on the struggle to save a young woman marked for sacrificial rites. A disfigured scientist, Pierre Soret, warns Dr. Carl Fielding that his fiancée Ruth has been ensnared by the Countess Moonard’s cult of Moonere, which draws unearthly power from Sudre, a moon of a distant planet. Pierre reveals the temple’s star-glass that focuses deadly rays and an idol that becomes animate during rites. Using telepathy, a scrying “bowl,” and a counter‑ray, Pierre battles the cult from his hidden laboratory while Inspector Chadwick briefly falls under the countess’s spell. As the sacrificial night peaks, Pierre—dying under Sudre’s rays—guides Carl to the temple with a silver disk that reflects a fatal beam, melting the golden idol and driving the countess to destruction in her own fire. The temple collapses, the enthralled women are freed and age to their true years, and Ruth is saved. Pierre perishes, his voice fading after one last aid from beyond, and Carl and Ruth return to ordinary life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 20250711064009speer 1937 US Reading ease score: 83.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Horror tales London (England) -- Fiction Cults -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 115383 2025-09-30T08:30:04.456034 text/html 90379 2025-08-03T04:07:13 text/html 460567 2025-09-30T08:30:07.977953 application/epub+zip 460963 2025-09-30T08:30:05.778002 application/epub+zip 237736 2025-09-30T08:30:04.998004 application/epub+zip 1072349 2025-09-30T08:30:09.627954 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1064321 2025-09-30T08:30:07.450989 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 105768 2025-09-30T08:30:04.117973 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 85894 2025-08-03T04:07:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17964 2025-09-30T08:30:09.768974 application/rdf+xml 31833 2025-09-30T08:30:05.321967 image/jpeg 4888 2025-09-30T08:30:05.158002 image/jpeg 1227099 2025-09-30T08:30:04.519998 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