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Post by dem bones on Apr 30, 2023 11:57:14 GMT
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Post by dem bones on May 7, 2023 12:25:51 GMT
Seabury Quinn - Demons of the Night; ( Street and Smith's Detective Story Magazine, 19 March 1917: Gene Christie [ed.], Seabury Quinn: Demons of the Night & Other Early Tales, Black Dog, 2009.) Believed to be Quinn's first published story. Krump, a middle-aged clerk, falls prey to a beautiful vampire phantom lift-cadger at a Halloween party. Alma du Boise, who shares her name with the murder victim in the gruesome 'Taxicab Mystery,' has the gallant Mr. K drive them back to her place - the cemetery ... Editor Christie opines: "It is a variation on a folk tale that was well known throughout Europe even before Quinn's use of it, and which has since entered our modern lexicon as the "urban legend" of the phantom hitch-hiker. " Read for yourself if you want.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 7, 2023 11:29:49 GMT
Kim Ji-Hyuk The Railway Children, Usbourne Illustrated Originals, 2016. A "Travellers Tale" chanced upon while searching the British Newspaper Archive for contemporary reviews of Jessica Adelaide Middleton's Another Grey Ghost Book. Might be of interest to fans of The Railway Children, book and film, should they not already be aware of it. I think the book JAM refers to might be Please Tell Me a Tale: A Collection of Short Original Stories for Children From Four to Ten Years of Age (London: Skeffington and Son, 1885), whose contributors include R. Sabine Gould, Christabel R. Coleridge & Co., though have no idea of the story. Update 14 Feb 2024 MARY WOUNER, of York, Pennsylvania, is a little girl who preserved a railroad train from destruction the other day by swinging her apron for the engineer to stop after she had discovered a broken rail. — The Day's Doings, 12 October 1872
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