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PseudoPod 902: The Ghost and Half-Past Two

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“The Ghost” was first published in The Windsor Magazine, May 1928. “Half-Past Two” was first published in the August 15, 1928 edition of The Daily Mail. She was a girl of fourteen, and she sat propped up with pillows in an old four-poster bed, coughing a little with the feverish cold that kept her there. She was tired of reading by lamplight, and she lay and listened to the… Source

Psychological HorrorRevengeAmbiguous Ending

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Historical EuropeRestrained ProseSlow BurnGuiltDreadUnsettlingTenseHorrorDarkMemory

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