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    The Golgotha Dancers
    The Golgotha Dancers
    The Golgotha Dancers
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    The Golgotha Dancers

    By Manly Wade Wellman

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
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      The Golgotha Dancers - Manly Wade Wellman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golgotha Dancers, by Manly Wade Wellman

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      Title: The Golgotha Dancers

      Author: Manly Wade Wellman

      Release Date: May 29, 2010 [EBook #32580]

      Language: English

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      The Golgotha Dancers

      By MANLY WADE WELLMAN

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales October 1937. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      A curious and terrifying story about an artist who sold his soul that he might paint a living picture

      I had come to the Art Museum to see the special show of Goya prints, but that particular gallery was so crowded that I could hardly get in, much less see or savor anything; wherefore I walked out again. I wandered through the other wings with their rows and rows of oils, their Greek and Roman sculptures, their stern ranks of medieval armors, their Oriental porcelains, their Egyptian gods. At length, by chance and not by design, I came to the head of a certain rear stairway. Other habitués of the museum will know the one I mean when I remind them that Arnold Böcklin's The Isle of the Dead hangs on the wall of the landing.

      I started down, relishing in advance the impression Böcklin's picture would make with its high brown rocks and black poplars, its midnight sky and gloomy film of sea, its single white figure erect in the bow of the beach-nosing skiff. But, as I descended, I saw that The Isle of the Dead

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