(Rev.) E.J. Rollings, The Silent Horror. Defender Publishers, Witchita, Kansas. 1939. 9”x6”, 45pp. Original decorated wrappers. Inexpensive production, printed on not-very-good paper, though still in nice shape, but with browning around the edges of the very green wrappers. $250
Provenance: Library of Congress, with their stamp on the rear cover. Also: there is a carbon copy of the entry for the original LC card catalog card. Quite nice.
- WorldCat locates only ONE copy, oddly enough.
The major chapters deal with the shades of narcotics: Opium, the King of Dope; Crown Prince, Morphine; Cocaine, the Princess of Perdition; Marijuana, the Dutchess of Dispair; the Dope Peddlers; and Addicts.
Other books by Elmer James Rollings: Marijuana, the weed of woe:The peril of the poppy; The world today in the light of Bible prophecy.
The book is very highly inflamatory, and includes stories and languages such as this:
“An eighteen-year-old boy in a Midwestern “city smoked two "reefers" and an hour later choked his sweetheart to death because she refused his shocking, lustful advances, born in a marijuana-crazed brain. He later testified that he loved her and had intended to marry her and when normal would never have dreamed of an improper suggestion, let alone the horrible murder”
“A sixteen-year-old boy shot his mother and father to death with his father's shotgun after smoking several "Mary Anns" given to him by a new friend whose acquaintance he made by chance. He could neither explain nor remember the killing when the effects of the drug had worn off and sobbed himself into hysterical grief when told of his crime. And so, on and on, runs the record of thievery, forgery, banditry, kidnapping, brutal murder, degeneracy, and rape, all chargeable to this paralyzer of conscience and inflamer of depravity --- Marijuana! “
There are several provocative photos, as well.
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