Ugh they have been abnormally large and alarming, only once--and I am anxious to forget that time--were they…
- Date of account
- Published 1911
- Source
- Byways of Ghost-Land
- Reference
- Byways of Ghost-Land · selected passage 49
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
ugh they have been abnormally large and alarming, only once--and I am anxious to forget that time--were they anything like as offensive as many of the ghostly dogs that have manifested themselves to me
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyugh they have been abnormally large and alarming, only once--and I am anxious to forget that time--were they anything like as offensive as many of the ghostly dogs that have manifested themselves to me. In my _Haunted Houses of England and Wales_ I have given an instance of dual haunting, in which one of the phenomena was a big black cat with a fiendish expression in its eyes, but otherwise normal; and, _à propos_ of cats, there now comes back to me a story I was once told in the Far West--the Golden State of California. I was on my way back to England, after a short but somewhat bitter absence, and I was staying for the night at a small hotel in San Francisco. The man who related the anecdote was an Australian, born and bred, on his way home to his native land after many years' sojourn in Texas. I was sitting on the sofa in the smoke-room reading, when he threw himself down in a chair opposite me and we gradually got into conversation. It was late when we began talking, and the other visitors, one by one, yawned, rose, and withdrew to their bedrooms, until we found ourselves alone--absolutely alone.
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Modern context
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