Seven Footprints to Satan

They found Satan in the suburbs of New York City, Long Island to be exact. You reply on the street that's not news, the Devil manipulates the Stock Market, again, give me something I haven't heard before. Lucifer has a vast treasure trove, looted the biggest in history in his massive, secluded mansi......more

Readers of Abraham Merritt's first four novels--"The Moon Pool," "The Metal Monster," "The Face in the Abyss" and "The Ship of Ishtar"--may feel a little surprised as they get into his fifth, "Seven Footprints to Satan." Whereas those earlier fantasy masterpieces featured exotic locales such as the......more

This is part horror, part adventure and part crime novel. A bit like a combination of Fu Manchu and Indiana Jones. But a much much less racist version of Fu Manchu. It involves an intrepid explorer who finds himself ensnared by a diabolical criminal mastermind who calls himself Satan. The seven foot......more

More than 90 years before Squid Game, there was Seven Footprints to Satan. Explorer James Kirkham comes back to New York from a lucrative mission in China and quickly finds himself kidnapped and brought to a cult run by a man calling himself Satan. Satan wants to play a little game with Kirkham and i......more

Originally published in 1928, Seven Footprints to Satan one-ups the standard pulp formula of a world-famous explorer who recovered a valuable artifacts with great dollops of wit and courage, only to find that her/his success provided a springboard into something more dangerous and mysterious. That m......more