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The Demon Dwarf

1897 · Free to read

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About this issue

This 1897 Beadle and Adams pulp magazine issue contains "The Demon Dwarf's Ally; Eavesdropper Faerot's Right Hand Man" by A. P. Morris, Jr. The serial follows gentle, orphaned Ytol, mistreated by her adoptive mother Rebecca on a Chesapeake farmstead, who finds solace in her young lover Wharle Dufour. As they meet secretly on a hillside to exchange vows—he promising marriage in two years if she remains true—they are observed by Hoyle Yarik, a disreputable sailor eavesdropper who cryptically mutters about fate and the Dufour family. Yarik subsequently arrives at the nearby village tavern owned by Jeremy Coddle, entering as an old acquaintance. The narrative employs moralizing verse epigraphs and melodramatic conventions typical of 1890s serialized fiction, establishing conflicts of domestic cruelty and romantic obstruction through provincial American rural settings.

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