Omens Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner Does the above… Continue reading
Nosy Neighbors Writ By A Low Type What Has Risen In The World (Or, To Be Frank, Dictated-Like, To A Lad What Knows How To Spell, Proper) Hello, Alfie W. ‘ere, with me weekly Account of my Hobservations Among The Nobs. Any words what you lads don’t know, try to… Continue reading
Maze Langley’s Labyrinths Are Available For Hire! Gentlemen, you may think it Unlikely that you will be called upon to Assassinate one of England’s Political Enemies. You may even describe such a practice as Barbarous. But One Must Look To The Future! Who can say what it holds? Do you… Continue reading
Last Will And Testament Last Will And Testament of Gilford Grimsby I, Gilford Grimsby, being of Sound Mind, and Disliking Solicitors, especially my own Solicitor, Mr. Gaunt, who is a sniveling Stick-In-The-Mud and REFUSED to write this Will out properly, have decided to do it myself. I ask that… Continue reading
Key-Holes We all have our little secrets… little, silly things we don’t want Bruited Abroad… Things that our Husbands, our Friends, and our Servants would never understand… We close our doors and imagine we are Unobserved… We like to think that Really Nice People Do Not Peek At Key-Holes. But,… Continue reading
Jilted lovers By An Anonymous Society Lady Monday, 1st November My Dears! I know that you all read my Little Weekly Effort because I ‘dish the dirt’ – with a Vengeance! And I have SUCH dirt for you today, I hardly know where to begin! But I suppose I’ll tell… Continue reading
Inquest Inquest On Death of Long-Lost Heir Breaks Up In Some Disorder The Case of “Tichborne Again” Is Complicated By Claimant’s Sudden Death [ezcol_1half] Dramatic End Of A Sordid Business The latest chapter in the most sensational controversy of the new century opened on Sunday, October 5th, when the man… Continue reading
Hiding The Body Diary of the Dowager Duchess of Bilgewater (with thanks and apologies to Dorothy Sayers, who did this sort of thing rather better) My dear Lady Ermyntrude- How is your dear mother? Is she keeping well? I do hope so! Send her my love. And I hear you… Continue reading
Ghost An Account of Certain Psychical Researches Undertaken By This Society at Harrowing Hall By Dr. James Cowslip, SPR Secretary [ezcol_1half] In this article, I had hoped to set before my learned colleagues the last part of the Society’s researches into the phenomena that have for centuries been reported at… Continue reading
False Confessions Entire Village Confesses To Murder of Local Banker Police Baffled, Annoyed Regular readers of this paper will remember that the village of Standoffish was recently the scene of a murder. The victim was a Mr. Gordon Ghastly, a local Banker; he was Found Stabbed in the Abbey… Continue reading
