When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way. A former mental patient and a deformed eccentric conspire in a fantastic plot. An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve. As a man pursues the affections of beautiful young girl, he begins to experience a strange phenomenon that up till that point only affected her mother. After his life-long friend goes missing near the legendary river Strid, Weigall sets out to look for him. A man becomes lost on a moor in heavy snow and is rescued by a strange, reclusive academic. A short history of and a personal tale concerning the phenomenon of being buried alive. An artist returns from Europe a changed man after a frightening experience involving a mysterious woman and a rotting banjo. |
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