The Diabolical Doctor Satan

Book excerpt: The eight Doctor Satan stories by Paul Ernst appeared in Weird Tales in 1935 and 1936. Doctor Satan, an enormously wealthy man, tired of all the thrills that money can buy, turned to crime and became a cold-blooded monster. He employs both scientific and occult knowledge to commit fiendish and sinister acts of evil, and spectacularly gruesome murders. Ascott Keane, strangest of detectives, with an equal knowledge of science and the occult, battles against the diabolical Doctor Satan to save society. Doctor Satan (1935) – The world’s weirdest criminal and strangest detective come face to face—a thrilling, fascinating and utterly different mystery story 1 - The Death Shrub 2 - Ascott Keane 3 - Doctor Satan 4 - Satan’s Trap 5 - The Two Titans The Man Who Chained the Lightning (1935) – Another amazing tale of Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal, whose startling exploits will hold you spellbound 1 - Death on the Wall 2 - Beneath the Metropolis 3 - The Red Trail 4 - The Fifth Victim 5 - Chained Lightning Hollywood Horror (1935) – Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal, spreads terror in Hollywood in a powerful thrill-tale of blind, unreasoning fear and panic terror 1 - Death in Life 2 - Satan’s Decree 3 - The Heart of the Web 4 - Black Box of Death The Consuming Flame (1935) – A violet flash, then the speeding car and its inhabitants vanished from sight leaving only a charred spot on the concrete of the highway. Another amazing tale of Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal. 1 - The Night Explodes 2 - The Death Engine 3 - Satan Schemes 4 - The Voice of Satan 5 - Living Death 6 - Two Metal Cubes Horror Insured (1936) – Another amazing story about the exploits of the sinister figure who calls himself Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal—a tale of breathtaking incidents and eery power 1 - In Satan’s Crucible 2 - Lucifex Insurance Co. 3 - Stroke and Counterstroke 4 - The Screaming Three Beyond Death’s Gateway (1936) – Doctor Satan and Ascott Keane battle to the death— in the Afterlife! A four chapter novelette. The Devil’s Double (1936) – A powerful, blood-chilling thrill-tale about the Blue Death and the world’s weirdest criminal, who called himself Doctor Satan 1 - The Mad Dancer 2 - Satan’s Threat 3 - Road to Hell 4 - Hell’s Anteroom 5 - The Scarlet Twain Mask of Death (1936) – A weird and uncanny tale about a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies 1 - The Dread Paralysis 2 - The Living Dead 3 - The Stopped Watch 4 - The Shell 5 - Death’s Lovely Mask The Diabolical Doctor Satan has 10 illustrations.