His Unconquerable Enemy

At the end of Tod Browning's Freaks (at about 1:03 in the clip below), as the freaks chase down Cleopatra to exact their revenge, there is a particularly creepy scene that shows the armless and legless Human Torso crawling along the muddy ground with a dagger clenched between his teeth.



I always get goosebumps when I see that and can never help wondering what the Torso would look like in action. W.C. Morrow's short story, "His Unconquerable Enemy" (originally published in the Mar. 11, 1889 issue of The Argonaut), goes a long way toward answering that question. It features an avenger in a similar physical state and a morally bankrupt first-person narrator who may be even scarier. Well worth reading.