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The Hideous Face
Victor Johns · 1923
A weird tale of art, war and revenge: in a Marseilles cafe, an American traveler hears how a sailor's ruined face and an artist's obsession carried an old horror from a New England studio to the waterfront.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 19 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Marseilles and the Atlantic Memory
La Cannebiere in WinterCafe terraces, soldiers, sailors, flower sellers and evening mistral along the famous Marseilles thoroughfare.
Connections: Cafe and Rose
The Hideous Face Cast
Bayard — Profile
Lawrence Bainridge — Profile
The Rose at the CafeThe flower girl pins a rose to Lawrence's lapel and his composure tears open in public.
Into the GravePedro's joke becomes terror when the flat stone slides back over Lawrence in the old grave.
This edition
- Title
- The Hideous Face
- Author
- Victor Johns
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 38 original artworks · 19 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 3,120 words
- Reading time
- 12 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 #69606
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