Halloween Countdown 2024, Day 15

Let’s keep this Gothic Halloween-fest going!

Today’s text is Wieland; or, The Transformation (1798) by Charles Brockden Brown.

Read it here.

Quote: The tales of apparitions and enchantments did not possess that power over my belief which could even render them interesting. I saw nothing in them but ignorance and folly, and was a stranger even to that terror which is pleasing. But this incident was different from any that I had ever before known. Here were proofs of a sensible and intelligent existence, which could not be denied. Here was information obtained and imparted by means unquestionably super-human.

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