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Post by dem bones on May 4, 2020 10:34:05 GMT
E. K. Allan - The Round Graveyard: (Charles Lloyd [ed.], Monsters, 1934). The graveyard lies on the Hertfordshire-Essex border near Hungerdown Wood. An elemental with elongated Mr. Tickle arms and a twisted sense of humour preys upon those who stray too close to the tree by the North Wall. Read it on Vault Advent Calendar 2018. E. F. Benson - The Other Bed: ( Popular Magazine, Apr, 1908). Narrator on Christmas skiing holiday in the Swiss Alps, takes room 33 at the Hotel Beau Site for a very reasonable price. It is haunted by the ghost of an alcoholic who took a razor to his throat during a whisky binge. L. Baillie Reynolds - The House Which Was Rent-Free: ( The Relations and What They Related II, Ladies Realm, 1902). Dennismore Hall, Dorset is haunted by the ghost of a ten year old who, cruelly maltreated by his evil guardian, Mr. Haggard, vanished, never to be seen alive again. New tenant, recently widowed Mrs. Preston, gifted with the second sight, locates his bones while skating on the frozen lake.
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2020 19:05:34 GMT
William Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship: (The Red Magazine, 1 July 1914. as The Mystery of the Ship in the Night). "Look at the slime on her! She's a proper Davy Jones ship. By gum! she stinks like a corpse!" She is also constructed of solid stone, as is the man sat at a stone table in her stone cabin. Then narrator Duprey catches a glimpse of what appears to be a giant red head of writhing eels. Could it be that the petrified vessel fell victim to a Medusa of the deep, or is their a ration explanation? A strange and terrifying mid-Atlantic adventure for the crew of The Alfred Jessop.
M. R. James - A Vignette: (London Mercury, Nov. 1936). Slight piece, inspired by MRJ's childhood at Livermere Rectory, Suffolk. A draped form with horrible face haunts gate leading onto the woods.
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