The Dragon

By: William Schoell

Narrated by: Jeffrey S. Robinson

Photographer Eddie Drake had expected a challenge when he joined the archaeological expedition to the lost city of El Lobo, but he was unprepared for the bizarre terrors that lurked beneath the Mexican mesa.

The deeper the party descended into the ruins, the more unbelievably horrifying it became. Huge slug-like monsters with a hunger for flesh left trails of slime and blood through the hellish labyrinth, but the greatest terror was yet to come, as the men realized with growing panic that the cavern walls were actually composed of living flesh.

©1989 William Schoell (P)2024 Mark Alan Miller

A pulpy blast from horror's past

THE DRAGON isn't William Schoell's best novel, but it certainly lives up to his belief that horror stories should be entertaining. Many of the characters aren't the most likeable, but the story itself is never uninspired nor predictable. It feels like a lost story from the 1920s that was recovered, updated, and finally published six decades later. Jeffrey S Robinson does a fine job of reading, with a dry-but-not-dull tone that suits this novel well.