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Duval, Paul. Paul Duval was created by F. William Sarles and appeared in three stories in Weird Tales in 1926, beginning with “Duval’s Weird Experiment” (Weird Tales, Apr. 1926).

Paul Duval is an "intuitive scientist," one who combines research and instinct. He creates a short-wave radio that puts him in contact with the dead. The radio first materializes a monster that wounds the narrator (Duval kills it) and then a psychopomp who lets Duval talk to his dead wife. The radio later sends Duval to another plane, the Hellish "Second Circle," and Duval escapes from it only with the sacrifice of Marguerite, a woman in love with Duval. Finally, Duval is pursued by a murderer from the Second Circle, but manages to kill her with the help of Marguerite, who is trapped in the Second Circle.

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