The moment the clock struck six I picked up my valise, and gobbling down a lukewarm breakfast with little relish, quitted the house, determining to pay it another visit before very long.
In this, however, I was doomed to disappointment. Some months elapsed before I could again visit the neighbourhood of Euston, and when I did so, I found the hotel had vanished nor have I to this day been able to identify the house wherein I slept.
I have but lately been informed that a good many years ago (when we middle-aged fogies were mere children) a singularly repulsive murder was committed at a house in or near Euston Road, the victim being a somewhat extraordinary old lady. Further details I do not know, therefore I can only surmise that what I saw may possibly have been HER phantasm—but please remember, it is ONLY a surmise.
PANMAUR HOLLOW
MERIONETH
THE BLACK PEDLAR
Technical form of apparition: Phantasm of the dead
Source of authenticity: “Ladies’ Cabinet,” 1835, and elsewhere
Cause of haunting: Murder
The “Ladies Cabinet” for 1835 contains an account of a haunting in Merioneth that seems to me of sufficient psychic interest to record.