A slave trader steals a demon-faced drum after a murder, and its consequences unfold across his family's next generation. Ward's 118 engravings make his second novel more structurally ambitious than God's Man, joining inherited violence, class aspiration, and social critique.
Sources for Lynd Ward — Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts
Lynd Ward — Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts in Wordless Novels
Held in the Wordless Novels chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Konrad Ferdinand Edmund von Freyhold — Tiere (Animals) (1909)
- Frans Masereel — Mon Livre d'Heures (My Book of Hours) (1919)
- Hermann-Paul — La Danse Macabre: Vingt Gravures sur Bois (1919)
- Frans Masereel — La Ciudad (Die Stadt / The City) (1925)
- Otto Nückel — Destiny: A Novel in Pictures (Schicksal: Eine Geschichte in Bildern) (1926)
- Lynd Ward — God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (1929)
- Milt Gross — He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It, No Music Too (1930)
- Frans Masereel — 25 Images of a Man's Passion (1918)
- Frans Masereel — Die Sonne (The Sun) (1919)
- Frans Masereel — Idée: Sa naissance, sa vie, sa mort (1920)