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Allan and his companions are stranded at a mountain lodge. He decides to play cards with "The Man" himself, whose encounter with the Devil has left him with the curse of being unable to lose at gambling. Allan doesn't believe such nonsense, but has his own strange meeting later that night--with disastrous consequences. A thrilling tale of terror and horror!
Gaston LeRoux
Gaston Leroux was a French journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, and is most famous for his acclaimed novel, The Phantom of the Opera. A student of law, Leroux turned to journalism after spending his inheritance on a lavish lifestyle. Over a decade of work as a court reporter and theatre critic for the L'Écho de Paris served as inspiration for his series of successful detective novels featuring Joseph Rouletabille, an amateur sleuth, and Leroux's contributions to the French detective genre are considered as significant as those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Leroux died in 1927.
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