The Eater of Darkness

published in 1926 in Paris
republished in America in 1929 and 1959

  1. Apologue: Paris
  2. Chapter I: New York
    • Charles Dograr.
    • boarding house
    • The Eater of Darkness / Picrolas
      • The Dead Plane
      • The X-Ray Bullet
  3. murder of Trulge
  4. Rupert C. Pragman
  5. Trulge’s niece Adelaide
  6. Herbert Trask
  7. more murders!
  8. Adelaide pregnant with Dograr’s child
  1. Fred Coolan
  2. prostitute Helène Montmorency
  3. The ultimate bank robbery!
  4. Picrolas reveals his passionate love for Dograr
  5. Climax
    • Pragman accidentally blows up himself, Picrolas, and the X-Ray Bullet
    • everyone gunning for Dograr
    • a wild chase through the city
    • Dograr awaits death with Helène in his arms
    • cops burst in while Adelaide and Trask fire their guns
  6. The End
  7. Epilogue: fiction written by the woman from the Apologue
    • Charles will be returning from America after a one year absence
    • the book has been this woman fantasizing about her lover.

The Author | Postmodernism | Form | Paper | Cover of 1959 Edition