Lynd Ward[:] Gods' Man * Madman's Drum * Wild Pilgrimage #[nn]

In *Gods' Man*, a gifted artist finds his life transformed by a mysterious stranger who gifts him a miraculous brush. When the stranger returns years later, the artist—now a devoted father—greets him with joy and begins to paint his portrait, unaware of the terrible truth beneath the mask.

In *Madman's Drum*, a young man raised in quiet isolation after his father’s cruel punishment for playing a stolen African drum grows into a scholar and a husband, haunted by a mysterious piper who appears at the edges of his life. As his children face tragedy and injustice—one framed and hanged, the other broken by betrayal—Madman is drawn back to the drum that began it all, finally walking away with the enigmatic piper.