Blizzard, crippled in childhood when a young doctor needlessly amputated his legs, has become the hidden ruler of San Francisco’s underworld. Brilliant, cruel and musical, he lays a long plan of revenge, and the surgeon’s daughter Barbara, an ambitious sculptor, becomes part of it when she needs a model for her figure of Satan.
The lurid melodrama behind Lon Chaney’s famous 1920 film, for readers who like their villains grand. Download the free EPUB.