Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird a store of novels and tales
that for generations have delighted and horrified. Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to
attend to a new patient Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson a wealthy
industrialist struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after
Robinson's most prized possession an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box
etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon Vanaman and Robinson's courageous
neice Leilah are drawn into an odyssey a voyage toward the box's ancient terrifying
origin...The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing Gertrude
Barrows Bennett's Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy philosophy and terror. 'The
most important female writer of speculative fiction that you've probably never heard of' Worlds
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