Drome By John Martin Leahy Illustrated By John Martin Leahy FANTASY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Copyright 1952 By John Martin Leahy Copyright 1925 By Weird Tales Magazine Manufactured in the U. S. A. [Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Contents Preface Prolegomenon 1. The Mysterious Visitor 2. What He Told Us 3. The Mystery of Old He 4. "Voices" 5. "Drome!" 6. Again! 7. "And Now Tell Me!" 8. "Drome" Again 9. "To My Dying Hour" 10. On The Mountain 11. The Tamahnowis Rocks 12. We Enter Their Shadow 13. "I Thought I Heard Something" 14. The Way To Drome 15. The Angel 16. "Are We Entering Dante's Inferno Itself?" 17. Like Baleful Eyes! 18. "That's Where They Are Waiting For Us!" 19. The Angel And Her Demon 20. The Attack 21. Into The Chasm 22. What Did It Mean? 23. That We Only Knew The Secret 24. What Next? 25. The Labyrinth--Lost 26. Through The Hewn Passage 27. The Monster 28. I Abandon Hope 29. The Ghost 30. The Moving Eyes 31. "Gogrugron!" 32. "Lepraylya!" 33. Face To Face 34. Another! 35. A Scream and--Silence 36. Gorgonic Horror 37. As We Were Passing Underneath 38. Something Besides Madness 39. The Golden City 40. Before Lepraylya 41. A Human Raptor 42. He Strikes 43. Drorathusa 44. We See The Stars "For there is one descent into this region."--Josephus: Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades. Drome Preface by Darwin Frontenac