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Post by dem bones on Apr 12, 2021 6:46:38 GMT
J. F. Sullivan - Man with a Malady: ( Strand, July 1894). "Do you consider it an advantage to foresee a lot of miserable and horrible things which are destined to happen to you years hence, and look forward to them, and brood upon them all the time until they happen." Our initial response is that the man convalescing at Monte Carlo - where he has just broken the bank for a laugh - doesn't know how lucky he is. The ability to accurately foretell the future? Some "malady!" But then he explains the downside and it is small wonder he wishes others to enjoy the dubious benefit his bounty. A. M. Burrage - Nobody's House: ( Some Ghost Stories, 1927). "The room was full of hideous modern furniture, and decorated largely with the portraits of people who ought to have known better than to be photographed." The gloomy cottage has stood empty for two decades, save for the room allocated to the caretaker, Mrs. Park. Twenty years ago, the owner, Gerald Harboys, housebound with a broken leg, shot dead a lifelong friend, Peter Marsh, in the library, convinced the fellow was having it off with his wife. Harboy's defence remains that he remembers nothing of the incident. Now, on his release, Harboys returns to spend a night in the room supposedly haunted by his victim.
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