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Ooze
Anthony M. Rud · 1923
In the swamps of southern Alabama, a nervous investigator follows a trail of scientific curiosity, local silence, and uncanny traces around a dead house. Anthony M. Rud's early Weird Tales shocker becomes a miniature illustrated classic of biological dread, where every clue seems to glisten with life.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 28 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Dead House Circuit
Dead House WallThree standing brick walls, Cherokee rose, live oaks and the enclosed ruin.
Dead House Household
Anthony M. Rud
Ooze Cast
The Dead House Household
The Ruin in BloomThe narrator finds Dead House standing enormous and flowered at the edge of Moccasin Swamp.
The Wall BargainCranmer pays the bricklayers for silence while Dead House becomes sealed from the road.
This edition
- Title
- Ooze
- Author
- Anthony M. Rud
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 55 original artworks · 28 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 9 · about 8,407 words
- Reading time
- 34 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #68957
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