In The Grip Of The Griffin: The Complete Battles Of Gordon Manning & The Griffin, Volume 3 - Plot & Excerpts
Lofty trees shut in the neglected garden, save where sunshine entered through the ragged branches of a blasted maple.The golden gleam shone upon the form of the Griffin. His body was clad in a robe of sable brocade. A black skullcap covered his pate. His face was covered by a yellow mask of gleaming fabric, finer than silk, resembling goldbeaters’ skin. It half-revealed the features, and made them hideous, seemingly leprous; clinging closely to the harsh contours; the high cheekbone, the beaked nose, the thin, cruel lines of the mouth. Black eyes gleamed through half-open slits. They were eyes without a soul behind them, the orbs of a murderous maniac.The Griffin had slain, with fiendish ingenuity, a score of men who stood for the advancement of philanthropy, of science and art. Men hard to replace, whose death halted fine achievements.Once he had been captured, after a failure to kill had inflamed his diseased, but subtle brain.Gordon Manning, scientist, explorer and adventurer, ex-Military Intelligence; called in under special commission to uncover and arrest the monster, had succeeded; but the law had proclaimed the Griffin mad.
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