SOURCE: The Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens (Argosy, 1918)

DESCRIPTION: "...But he perceived that the coiled mass round his chest was becoming faintly luminescent--that it was by its own light he saw the flat brodness of the coil nearest his gace; noted with a great effort of attention, its thin edge and the translucent parallel corrigations of its upper surface. Like the body of a worm it was, seen by transmitted light--a giantic, living, shing, worm that had no right to existence, even in a bad dream..."

NOTES: Th Tlapallan Leech was once some other living creature placed in the sacred transmuting swamp earth brought from South America by the Lord of Fear.

HISTORY: Francis Stevens created several different creatures from the same source in this novel.

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