Ahhhhh... another 'hand' cover. This just reminds me of J C Leyendecker's style of illustration. This is a terrific cover to a pretty decent tale set in, you guessed it, a marsh. It's a fun adventure that introduced me to the Ignis Fatuus, commonly known as will-o'-the-wisp, a light that sometimes appears in the night over marshy ground and is often attributable to the combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter. Also known in the Medieval Latin as, literally, foolish fire.
The tale was also reprinted in The Thriller under the same title. Interestingly, it appears (according to Shadow Wiki) that Burbank acquires a first name, Richard. Of course the setting is moved to England and it seems that Rutledge Mann is written out (although to be fair he was only mentioned in the original and didn't make an appearance), but otherwise it appears to remain intact.
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