The Watcher and Other Weird Stories The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

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Publisher Description

It is a collection of ghost stories. These begin with "It is now more than fifty years since the occurrences which I am about to relate caused a strange sensation in the gay society of Dublin. The fashionable world, however, is no recorder of traditions; the memory of selfishness seldom reaches far; and the events which occasionally disturb the polite monotony of its pleasant and heartless progress, however stamped with the characters of misery and horror, scarcely outlive the gossip of a season, and (except, perhaps, in the remembrance of a few more directly interested in the consequences of the catastrophe) are in a little time lost to the recollection of all. The appetite for scandal, or for horror, has been sated; the incident can yield no more of interest or novelty; curiosity, frustrated by impenetrable mystery, gives over the pursuit in despair; the tale has ceased to be new, grows stale and flat; and so, in a few years, inquiry subsides into indifference".

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
3 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
242
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
1.4
MB

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