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Hunting the Ghost of Lille
I found the story of the Ghost of Lille in an interesting volume called Lord Halifax's Ghost Book, a selection of the "true" ghost stories collected by Charles Lindley Wood, the second Viscount Halifax (1839-1934), over the course of his...
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The Haunted Forest; plus, Wrapping Up Volume Two
It finally happened: for the first time since I started this project, I've drawn a complete blank. The Haunted Forest is a tale of temptation and trickery in the gothic style, set in a dark forest in Normandy. A virtuous widower and his three children...
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The Cavern of Steenfoll
"The Cavern of Steenfoll," subtitled "A Scottish Legend," is a dark and lovely tale from the pen of German Romantic writer Wilhelm Hauff. If you've been following my research on Evening Tales for the Winter, then it will also be a...
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The Legend of Old Spital Inn
One of the pieces that Vincent Price reads on his 1974 spooky tales album, A Graveyard of Ghost Tales, is a story called "The Ghostly Hand of Spital House," by Dorothy Gladys Spicer. This is a fun and engaging tale about some bandits who try to...
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Notes on The Mysterious Bell
"The Mysterious Bell" is a short, enigmatic tale that feels like the beginning of an unfinished story, but I like it. It reminds me a bit of the spooky sea tales of William Hope Hodgson, or of the Belgian writer Jean Ray. It also has hints of...
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Notes on The Boarwolf
"The Boarwolf" is a great story, and also a bit of a puzzle. Everett Bleiler attributed this early tale of lycanthropy (and porcanthropy?) to Johann August Apel, in the Tales of Terror entry of his 1983 Guide to Supernatural Fiction (p. 441)....
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Notes on The Nikkur Holl
"The Nikkur Holl" is a delightful yarn, full of allusions to folklore and cultural details of fishing village life in the Shetland Isles, supernatural dealings, and ghostly visitations. It comes from the first volume of Tales of a Voyager to the...
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