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Anything----" There was then a moment of the most intense silence, and then a shriek

Date of account: Published 1917
Source: Haunted Places in England
Reference: Haunted Places in England · selected passage 32
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Is that you? Anything----" There was then a moment of the most intense silence, and then a shriek. Morgan says it was like a woman's shriek--it was so shrill, so uncontrolled, so full of the most abject terror. For a moment it completely paralysed Morgan, but he seems then to have partially recovered. Anyhow, he pulled himself sufficiently together to run up the stairs and arrive outside Sir George's door in time to hear sounds of a most violent struggle. Tables, chairs, washstand, crockery, were all hurled to the ground, as Sir George raced round and round the room in his desperate efforts to escape. Once he caught hold of the handle of the door and turned it furiously. "Let me out!" he shrieked.

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