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Weird Tales, Apr 1939 p7
Weird Tales, Apr 1939 p7

"It was obvious to him now that these dead were of the species which had built the city."

The Red God Laughed

By THORP McCLUSKY

A strange tale about the end of human life on Earth

THE city was dead. Nu Yok, the greatest monument mankind ever reared upon the face of Earth, was dead. No creature of flesh and blood moved along her thousands of miles of multiple-tiered streets, glanced appreciatively and pridefully outward and downward through dizzying azure depths from the gleaming pinnacles of her four-thousand-foot towers, 'strolled or lounged in her unkempt and silent parks. No silvery air-

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