Excerpt from Tales From "Blackwood", Vol. 5: Being the Most Famous Series of Stories Ever Published, Especially Selected From That Celebrated English PublicationHE death, last autumn, of a distant relation of the writer, leaves him free to publish the curious facts which are noted below. He has known them long, and often wished that, in these days when phenomena which were formerly termed super natural are submitted to scientific and patient investigation, instead of being superciliously dis missed or weakly shuddered at, they might receive the attention of persons qualified to weigh and utilise, or possibly to explain them. But the wit nesses felt a great - it ought, perhaps, to be said, a morbid - objection to the discussion of the story outside the family circle, and thus it has been kept comparatively secret for more than half a century. S.s. - x. A.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.