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"They clawed vainly at the bars of their prison, or stared down in white-faced horror
at the dancing throng below."

TheDark Isle

By ROBERT BLOCH

An eldritch tale of the Romans and the Druids, and the horrendous doom
revealed by the flaring torchlight in that frightful
underground passage in England

The Celts knew it as Mona; the Britons called it Anglesey; but the Welsh spoke truly when they named the shunned spot "Ynys Dywyll"—the Dark Isle.

But all the peoples of Britain feared it for its dwellefs. Here were the oaken temples of the Druids, the caves and caverns of the forest people, and the strange altars reared to dread gods. In these times

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