Selección Terror: Un Diablo Suelto

# Un Diablo Suelto (A Loose Devil)

This Spanish-language pulp horror story by Clark Carrados concerns the mysterious death of Louis Harrelhaw, a formerly handsome man found dead on a secondary road. Inspector Douglas Villard, recognizing the name of his old schoolmate, is shocked to discover the corpse bears hideously deformed features and has shrunk significantly in height—yet fingerprints and dental records confirm the identification. Villard confides his bewilderment to civilian investigator Duke Sheridan at a pub, where they're interrupted by Edna Drutton, an attractive woman of questionable reputation involved in arranging mysterious meetings. The narrative then shifts to a sinister cult led by a tall, angular man in white robes presiding over a ritual sacrifice in a sealed underground chamber, where a victim named Matthew Harris is thrown into a circular pit while robed initiates witness the proceedings through glass, invoking their fertility goddess Shighia. The cult's connection to Harrelhaw's inexplicable transformation remains to be revealed.