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Wiki: "...and hitting it head-on would have hammered flat every challenge this night holds as surely as a Sonny Liston right cross."

Wiki: "The man grabs a couple Big Hunks and stuffs them into one of the Boy’s coat pockets."

Wiki: " Pretas have enormous appetites but lack the ability to satisfy them."

Wiki: "She could hardly tell Rupert’s cousin that she owned a buttonhook – only whores were meant to use them."

Wiki: "The Ukranian-born US writer Madame Helena Blavatsky (born Helena von Hahn; 1831-91) founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875; in 1888 the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in London."

08. The Wall of Clouds, 3 stars. A very ill Booth recovers from his forgotten lover while digging into the odd deaths at the convalescent hotel.
09. The Green Glass Paperweight, 3 stars. Dead guardian leaves insulting bequest, digging up old feelings.
10. Listening to Bone, 4 stars. Small child is lost, would like to go home.

05. Drowning Palmer, 4 stars. Booth's boss demands he attend his school reunion to recruit a fellow former classmate.
06. The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox, 3 stars. Ex-bully and bewildered heir asks for help tidying up uncle's library catalog, as stipulated in the will.
07. Elegy for a Demon Lover, 4 stars. Beautiful young man takes an intense interest in Booth, confounds him with sex.

Wiki: "The school itself was never Catholic, and it quickly attracted those families in the surrounding area—such as my father’s—who did not wish to demean themselves by competing with the Boston Brahmins."

01. Bringing Helena Back, 4 stars. Old friend asks puzzle lover to decrypt magic book.
02. The Venebretti Necklace, 4 stars. Skeleton discovered in wall, investigation uncovers terrible crime.
03. The Bone Key, 3 stars. Long lost relatives with ulterior motives badger Booth about keeping it in the family.
04. Wait for Me, 4 stars. Woman wills personal papers to museum, diaries explains dislike of a certain room.

Wiki: "Then on June ninth, the anniversary of Georgiana’s death, the haunting burst into bloom like a upas-tree."

Wiki: "I had been in the paper when the Parrington opened its new fossil exhibit, an ugly, gawky presence half-hidden behind a diplodocus skull."

03. An Episode of Cathedral History, 3 stars. Gossiping man tells visitor about church's previous renovation.
04. The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance, 4 stars. Nephew joins the search for missing uncle, has disturbing dream.
05. Two Doctors, 2 stars. Object of unfounded jealousy has restless nights, purchases new bedding.

01. The Residence at Whitminster, 3 stars. Evil teen corrupts innocent kid in the past, present day inhabitants of the same house see repercussions.
02. The Diary of Mr. Poynter, 3 stars. Henpecked nephew stumbles across an intriguing fabric pattern in an old book.

04. A View From a Hill, 3 stars. Unusual homemade binoculars look into the ugly past.
05. A Warning to the Curious, 3 stars. Amateur archeologist can't resist looting barrow, repents to new acquaintances.
06. An Evening's Entertainment, 3 stars. Granny tells kids about those two strange men that lived together (gasp!) down the road.

01. The Haunted Dolls' House, 3 stars. A crime reenacted in miniature spooks unscrupulous buyer.
02. The Uncommon Prayer-Book, 2 stars. Anti-Cromwell prayer books open themselves in beautiful but disused chapel.
03. A Neighbour's Landmark, 3 stars. Old pamphlets lead curious reader to a creepy keening noise in the woods.

Wiki: "We hear, indeed, of sheeted spectres with saucer eyes, and — still more intriguing — of ‘Rawhead and Bloody Bones’ (an expression which the Oxford Dictionary traces back to 1550), but the context of these striking images eludes us."

Bloody Bones > Grindylow

Wiki: "We ran on as far as the top of the shingle bank, and there pulled up."

Word: "He was very submissive and piano about it all: ready to do just what we thought best, but clearly quite certain in his own mind that what was coming could not be averted or palliated."

Adjective
piano

1. Soft, quiet
2. In extended use; quiet, subdued

Wiki: "It was of silver — as the Rendlesham one is always said to have been — it was set with some gems, mostly antique intaglios and cameos, and was of rather plain, almost rough workmanship."

Wiki: "...you will remember perhaps that in 1687 a crown, which was said to be the crown of Redwald, King of the East Angles, was dug up at Rendlesham, and alas! alas! melted down before it was even properly described or drawn."

Raedwald of East Anglia > Sutton Hoo

Wiki: "...firmly believing she was perfectly happy, and fortunately ignorant of the saying of another Greek, that a woman knows only two happy days, that of her marriage, and that of her funeral."

Wiki: "The subjects were generally unpleasant, or suggestive; such as Actaeon watching Diana, the loves of Jupiter and Leda ... with coloured copies of Hogarth’s Marriage à la mode."

Wiki: "As the Aeolian harp is thrilled by every passing breath of wind, so the consciousness of Dr. Berry responded to every change in the influence of the Strath."

Word: "Then entering his study he spread his translations before him, and straightway became an Athenian, floating delicately through most pellucid air."

1. admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion
2. reflecting light evenly from all surfaces
3. easy to understand

Wiki: "Honest, Mr. Dillet, I don’t know the ’ouse. Of course, it came out of the lumber room of a country ’ouse – that anyone could guess."

Lumber Room > Spear Closet

Wiki: "...it would have been difficult to find a more perfect and attractive specimen of a Dolls’ House in Strawberry Hill Gothic than that which now stood on Mr. Dillet’s large kneehole table..."

Wiki: "Wittgenstein commissioned it—not the philosopher but his musical brother, Paul, who’d lost his arm in the war. He commissioned more than half a hundred one-handed piano pieces. He was a visionary."

Wiki: "Those who adhere to this account claim that he was buried at Glastonbury, under a stone which said: HIC JACET ARTURUS REX QUONDAM REX QUE FUTURUS..."

Glastonbury Tor > Fata Morgana

Wiki: "For he had died in what was called the Odour of Sanctity. When saints die, their bodies fill the room with lovely scent: perhaps of new hay, or of blossom in the spring, or of the clean sea-shore."

66. Leena Krohn - Tainaron: Mail from Another City, 4 stars. Visitor writes (unanswered) letters from a city of insects.