A Stable for Nightmares: or, Weird Tales

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Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan. A Stable for Nightmares: or, Weird Tales

DICKON THE DEVIL

A DEBT OF HONOR

DEVEREUX’S DREAM

CATHERINE’S QUEST

HAUNTED

PICHON & SONS, OF THE CROIX ROUSSE

THE PHANTOM FOURTH

THE SPIRIT’S WHISPER

DOCTOR FEVERSHAM’S STORY

THE SECRET OF THE TWO PLASTER CASTS

WHAT WAS IT?

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HUSH! what was that cry, so low but yet so piercing, so strange but yet so sorrowful? It was not the marmot upon the side of the Righi – it was not the heron down by the lake; no, it was distinctively human. Hush! there it is again – from the churchyard which I have just left!

Not ten minutes have elapsed since I was sitting on the low wall of the churchyard of Weggis, watching the calm glories of the moonlight illuminating with silver splendor the lake of Lucerne; and I am certain there was no one within the inclosure but myself.

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“Fits! Is he subject to such attacks?” I inquired.

“Not ordinary fits,” she answered hurriedly; “I hardly know how to explain them. They come upon him occasionally, and generally at this period of the year.”

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