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The Incubus
Hamilton Craigie · 1923
A pulp-gothic miniature from Weird Tales: in an imagined Aztec tomb, Gerald Marston flees through wet stone, lantern light and a tightening thread of guilt while the darkness behind him seems to take on a terrible human weight.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 18 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Tomb and the Line
First Descent CorridorThe passage where the safety line begins to matter.
The Incubus Character Web
The Cast of The Incubus
Gerald Marston — Profile
Professor Pillsbury — Profile
The Blow in the TombThe planned accident happens in the lantern-lit passage beside the stone ledge.
The Rats KnewSunlight reveals that Marston carried his intended victim back alive.
This edition
- Title
- The Incubus
- Author
- Hamilton Craigie
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 42 original artworks · 18 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 3,733 words
- Reading time
- 15 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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