[ Walter Hubbell - Author Biography ] Though not an author by profession, Walter Hubbell did write a book detailing his experiences in what was claimed to be a “true and real haunting”. According to Walter Hubbell’s account, events began at the end of August 1878, after Esther Cox, then aged 18, was subjected to an attempted sexual assault by a male friend. This left her in great distress, and shortly after this the physical phenomena began. There were knockings, bangings and rustlings in the night, and Esther herself began to suffer seizures, in which her body visibly
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[ Algernon Henry Blackwood - Author Biography ] Algernon Henry Blackwood was born in Shooter’s Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, “though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas”. Algernon Henry Blackwood
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[ The Glamour of the Snow (chapter 7) - by Algernon Blackwood ] They say that men who know the sleep of exhaustion in the snow find no awakening on the hither side of death…. The hours passed and the moon sank down below the white world’s rim. Then, suddenly, there came a little crash upon his breast and neck, and Hibbert—woke. He slowly turned bewildered, heavy eyes upon the desolate mountains, stared dizzily about him, tried to rise. At first
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