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The Thing in the Hall and the Deadly Mystery
A narrator recalls Dr. Francis Assheton and Louis Fielder in Cambridge and London as they pursue hypnotism and supposed Elemental contact. Seances yield moving tables, lights, a sluglike shadow, and a terrifying Entity, ending in murder and the doctors’ deaths amid a house haunted by a grotesque presence.
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Thomas H. McKee
Dr. Assheton
Louis Fielder
Louis
Francis Assheton
Cambridge
Assheton
Louis Felder
Paris
Charcot
London
Chioroform Square
Chelsea
Satan
Louis’ House