Created by Lester Dent
(1905-1959)
But that’s not all. There’s a lightning bolt mark on the skull with red ink– the trademark of a nutjob supervillain who calls himself The Spark who runs a secret organization called — what else? — Terror, Incorporated. We know he’s a super-villain because a) he calls himself The Spark and b) he wears a black cape.
It’s your typical Dent weird mystery tale, caught somewhere between hard-boiled and his Doc Savage stories, full of tear gas, hidden microphones, radio transmitters, secret headquarters, and a fast-acting chemical bath that can reduce a human being to a skeleton in exactly ten minutes, plus the usual fisticuffs and gunplay.
SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS
- “Terror, Inc.” (May 1932, Detective-Dragnet)
COLLECTIONS
- Terror, Inc. (2013) | Buy this book
Contains “Terror, Inc.” and five other “fear-wrapped” tales of weird mystery and detection.
RELATED LINKS
- The Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
Lester Dent’s sure-fire recipe for writing a successful pulp story. - Lester Dent’s Rogues Gallery
An ever-growing list of Lester Dent’s detective characters.