This story had two godmothers, if you will. The first was, obviously, that I love “The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban” by William B. Seabrook, one of those wonderful short stories we have utterly forgotten; I wanted to draw attention to it. There are sins and there are sins. When I am gone, I do not want my prosecutor saying: “My Lord, Gene found this lovely story starving in a subcellar, climbed up, and forgot all about it.”
Second, because it is a story that makes the reader say, “What happens next? Can one civilized man, alone at a plantation in Africa, imprison a woman for life and get away with it? Of course not! If he doesn’t kill her, she’s going to get out sooner or later—and probably sooner rather than later.”
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