The Terror by Arthur Machen Fiction Fantasy Classics Mystery & Detective

<p><strong>Explosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities.</strong></p><p>The working man told about it and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal. . . . we took a tram to the location of the disaster; a raw and hideous shed with a walled yard about it and a shut gate. The roof was quite undamaged -- this had had been a strange accident. There had been an explosion of sufficient violence to kill work-people in the building but the building itself showed no wounds or scars.</p>