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MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES - JULIAN HAWTHORN...

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances  and environed by none of the conventional
ghostly surroundings  did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this
Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight  with the sun upon it. There was no wind  no rain  no
lightning  no thunder  no awful or unwonted circumstance  of any kind  to heighten its effect.
More than that: I had come to it direct from a railway station: it was not more than a mile
distant from the railway station  and  as I stood outside the house  looking back upon the way
I had come  I could see the goods train running smoothly along the embankment in the valley. I
will not say that everything was utterly commonplace  because I doubt if anything can be that 
except to utterly commonplace people and there my vanity steps in  but  I will take it on
myself to say that anybody might see the house as I saw it  any fine autumn morning. [...]
Includes various narratives from Charles Dickens  Laurence Sterne  William Makepeace Thackeray
and others.

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