originally published Weird Tales, June/July 1939
A man has taken an unusual new job, working in the underground tunnels of the NYC subway system.
He is given an orientation by former Prof. Gordon Craig, who left a job at the Natural History Museum decades ago, to work for the Special Subway Detail.
The job is to monitor and hunt down a race of ghouls that live in the tunnels. Craig goes on about the sophisticated technology, money, and secretive nature of the organization, and of the horrors he's seen in the tunnels, and the effect the job has on the men who do it. Including himself...
Told almost entirely through dialogue, this is a very effective little modern (for 1939) horror tale which builds up its atmosphere strongly as it rolls along. Its very memorable and a genuine gem of supernatural spookery.
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