Darker Than You Think 1 - Jack Williamson

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“They were in West Africa,” Barbee said slowly, thinking wistfully of the other days when he had been on expeditions to search for lost fragments of the puzzle of the past. “I think Dr. Mondrick was hunting proof of a notion that modern man first evolved in Africa—that was long before he found those sites in the
Ala-shan. Rowena was taking the chance to gather some ethnological data on the Nigerian tribal societies of human alligators and human leopards.”
“Human leopards?” The girl’s greenish eyes seemed to narrow and turn darker. “What are they?”
“Only the members of a secret cannibalistic cult, who are supposed to be able to turn themselves into leopards.” Barbee smiled at her taut intentness. “You see, Rowena was preparing to write a paper on lycanthropy—that’s the common belief among primitive tribes that certain individuals are able to transform themselves into carnivorous animals.”


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