Black Nick The Hermit of The Hills or The Expiated Crime

An unearthly figure of gigantic hight but lean and attenuated as a skeleton terrorizes American soldiers and Mohaawks. The figure was clothed in a tight black garment with steely gleams that covered it from head to foot and a pair of short upright horns projected from its close skull-cap leaving exposed skin a face of deathly pallor with great burning black eyes and a mustache that pointed upwards in true diabolical fashion.Who—or what is this monstrous figure and what does it portend for those it has made its enemies?A thrilling dime novel first published in 1873! Introduction by Karl Wurf.