His purpose was to control America's vast resources, so that he might sell them to Europe's highest-bidding war monger for fabulous millions. So powerful were his weapons: induced insanity, living cholera bacteria, a hideous hypnosis… that all who opposed him became his vassals – until Richard Wentworth in the guise of the Spider risked all he held dear in the grimmest battle of his crime-fighting life! Follow the Spider, Master of Men ...
Never before in history had anything quite so horrible as The Mad Horde been loosed upon a terrified humanity! In rural towns and through the thronging streets of great cities the death-bringers stalked, spreading the slow madness of which they themselves must soon die! The Spider, dismayed and horrified as never before in his long career, is forced at last into risking the life of the girl he loves-so that a million others may live! Millionair ...
There was no clue to the kidnapping of wealthy, powerful men and beautiful, talented women – until the Man Who Dealt in Death broke into Richard Wentworth's stroll in the moonlight with the wanton wounding of his own lookout. From that stricken gangster Wentworth obtained the first hint of the devil-brain that was using science and surgery, death and torture and extortion, to enslave the city's great. And Wentworth, better known as the ...
Cholera! Like Death's own handmaiden, it was reaping a grim harvest. Corpses piled high in the streets of New York. Innocent men, women and children died faster than their wasted bodies could be cremated. Pestilence reached fatal fingers into every home; terror haunted every breast… Richard Wentworth – whom the Underworld knows and fears as the Spider – realized that a new criminal maniac, keen-witted and ruthless, had loosed the devastatin ...
Ruthless, invulnerable, that Scarred Hand reached out to destroy the entire law machine of New York – blasting into merciless oblivion those juries which dared convict even a single criminal. In that twilight of terror, when empty cells yawned for the felons who never arrived, and helpless Justice hid her bloodied head – no one but Richard Wentworth could combat this invisible Juggernaut which had paralyzed five mighty boroughs. Once more, in th ...
War gongs clanged in Chinatown – but it was no tong war that tore the great Societies with fear and suspicion and deadly hate. For deeper in evil mystery than their own dark secrets lay the hidden temple of crime that loosed the Scourge of the Fangs – the menace that erupted in the men's haunts and overflowed into white men's lives and threatened white men's rule. Victims lived long enough to curse the unknown Man From Singapore – ...
Thousands of busy persons bent over their desks in the tallest building in the world – conducting the commerce of the nation – when suddenly the steel girders began to creak and twist, and the gigantic edifice swayed giddily in the rising wind. Never before had criminal brains devised a more cunning or a more horrible weapon to garner their ill-gotten treasures. And never before was the Spider so strenuously put to test – for the Master, the man ...
America's greatest metropolis struggled hopelessly in the toils of starvation – victim of the world's most unscrupulous impostor – a criminal red Spider whose underworld cohorts had slashed the city's life-giving arteries and established a bloody rule! While hollow-cheeked Famine left its ghastly imprint upon whimpering, peaked-faced little children, Richard Wentworth, in the real Spider's eerie guise, took up their desperate ...
The most fearful terror ever to be visited upon a city had struck with malicious force and suddenness at Cincinnati. So fiendish were the machinations of the misshapen and malignant little monsters who were making the city their unholy playground, Richard Wentworth, famed as the Spider, knew that only one man could be directing them in their devil's sport. Only Tang-akhmut, the sinister Egyptian, the man whose vices were ageless and uncount ...
