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The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel

Joe R. Lansdale

First published January 2000
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Ned the Seal

The protagonist of H. G. Wells' "Time Machine" having accidentally caused rifts between the various parallel universes, which also causes him to become an evil vampire, an American inventor and his team decide to utilize their giant steam powered man to hunt him down and defeat him.

The main characters in this story reappear in Flaming London.

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