Ripped from the pages of the March 1936 issue of Secret Agent "X"magazine, here is The Fear Merchants, a thrilling pulp novel! Includesthe great original magazine art. Flame demons swept across the city. And intheir scorching wake came a new horror. The firemen fighting the vast infernosuddenly toppled from their ladders, their shrieks piercing the blazing roar. For when the firefighters struck the pavement they were distorted, bloatedhusks... Secret Agent "X" was at that fire. But his manhunt was bloacked by abarrier of the bloated dead.