![]() ![]() That question, he says, must be left up to the reader, and as it turns out, Milton is spot on with his observation. He guarantees that he's combed through the facts as noted in his diary of twenty years earlier, and that this book is indeed a "true record" of events "including nothing that might be attributed to my imagination." He had originally intended on publishing just his diary notes "as they stood," but he was convinced by the three other principal players to a) "let it be a good thrilling sort of old-fashioned ghost story, with the mystery solved at the end," b) to write it up in "sonorous prose style" with "as much 'form and shape'" that he could manage, and c) to add into it a "lot of atmosphere and excitement." And all three of these elements are definitely here, although Milton himself wonders if the actual mystery was truly solved when all is said and done. ![]() Considering I'd never even heard of him before buying this book, I'd say that's a recommendation for reading this writer's work.Īs our story opens, we learn that this tale is the work of Milton Woodsley, who in 1954 has written a book about a series of strange occurrences that he was part of in 1933. I enjoyed this book so very much that even before I'd turned the last page, I bought another work by Edgar Mittelholzer. ![]()
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