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...damp October day, and Miss Dagmar Peters trembled with cold. She was planning to hitchhike to London, thirty miles distant. . . . Six hours later a police-surgeon was examining a ridged blue death-bruise around her throat. She lay spread-eagled among dark shrubbery verging the A20 high road between Maidstone and London. 'Strangled,' said the surgeon...
...muted greens, reds and violets, Goya shows himself in bed, head back, limp hands feebly clutching the bed sheets. His eyes are puffy, his thin, greying hair mussed and damp with fever. Behind him sits the calm doctor, supporting his patient with a strong left arm, gently urging him to drink a tumbler of medicine. There are three figures in Goya's darkened background: a priest, a woman (possibly Goya's cousin and housekeeper, Leocadia Weiss), and a mysterious, gaping head which may be Goya's symbol for death...
London tossed restlessly through a cold, damp night. Hours before dawn, thousands packed the route between Buckingham Palace and the Abbey and strung along the five-mile return route. Chill showers drenched them. As they waited for daylight and a glimpse of history, they squirmed under umbrellas, mackintoshes, soggy blankets and newspapers. "Mad, that's what we are," said one woman to another. "But there's thousands like...
...over the years the Newmans have collected them all. Neither two world wars nor the 1931 British financial crisis was enough to put the farm out of business. However, Hugh did resent it when he had to collect moths. No true butterfly man likes to go blundering through the damp bracken in the dark, flailing at bushes and clutching brambles...
...modern English ghost stories in this anthology do not have the shudder value of the old bloody-head and clinking-chain school. Instead of haunting damp Ruddigorean castles, most contemporary ghosts seem to have settled into fashionable flats, where they play hob with the call bells and the central heating. Moreover, the authors in Editor Asquith's collection have adulterated an old-fashioned art form with Freudian complexes and social crisis; they have forgotten that the one thing a ghost story does not need is a rational explanation...