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Intuitively I recognise the superphysical; it is the same species of cold which invariably heralds its approach

Date of account: Published 1911
Source: Byways of Ghost-Land
Reference: Byways of Ghost-Land · selected passage 48
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Intuitively I recognise the superphysical; it is the same species of cold which invariably heralds its approach. I have been right in my surmises after all; this spot is destined to be haunted. My eyes are wide enough open now, and every nerve in my body tingles with the keenest expectation. Something is coming, and, if that something is not the phantasm of him whom I believe is earthbound, whose phantasm is it? There is a slight noise of scratching from somewhere close beside me. It might have been the wind rustling the leaves against the masonry, or it might have been--I look round and see nothing. The sound is repeated and with the same result--NOTHING! A third time I heard it, and then from the dark road on one side of me there waddles--I recognise the waddling at once--a shadow that, gradually becoming a little more distinct, develops into the rather blurry form of a dog--a gaunt, hungry-looking mongrel.

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