CATCHFIELD HALL, THE
MIDLANDS
THE TERRIBLE HEADS THAT RISE
THROUGH THE FLOOR
Technical form of apparitions: Phantoms of the dead
Source of authenticity: Accumulative hearsay evidence
No. — The Terrace, Worcester.
March 1, 1908.
Dear Mr. Elliott O’Donnell,
I thought you would be interested to hear I met Mrs. Blake last night at the Stowes, where I got out of her with no small amount of pumping an account of “what she saw” at that notorious ball at Catchfield some years ago. It is very horrible, too horrible, perhaps even for such a “spook gourmand” as you. Of course all the names I have given you are fictitious. You know there have been several libel cases lately, in connection with haunted houses so that one cannot be too careful. &c. &c. &c.
Yours sincerely,
Evelyn D. O’Grady.