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...just about closing time when the corpse walked into the photographic studio of Mr. Mortimer Jenkyn. "Without speaking, he moved straight across the room and posed himself in front of the dingy back-ground of painted trees . . . seated himself in the faded armchair, crossed his legs, drew up the little round table with the artificial roses upon it ... and struck an attitude. He meant to be photographed...
When a corpse comes calling, it is perhaps wisest to do just as Mr. Jenkyn did in one of these Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood-he made the old boy right at home. U.S. readers might profitably do as much for the author of the stories. Algernon Blackwood doesn't write much these days, but 30 years ago he was one of fiction's most famous commuters to the Great Beyond...
...Hartnell decided that one of his mannequins, delightful Miss Ricki Richardson, who is expected to be a riot in South America, simply would not do for presentation to Their Majesties. Abruptly Mr. Hartnell substituted for Ricki Richardson a mannequin who has often modeled for Queen Elizabeth, majestic Daphne Osborn Jenkyn. Miss Jenkyn was introduced to Her Majesty as Miss Richardson. But The Queen called her "Jenkyn...
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