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"Mrs. Manifold" by Stephen Grendon
( #AugustDerleth )
~She could not abide the smell of wine.~
"She sat looking at me, humming a queer little tune, which I came to recognize later when she sang it: a sea-shanty. In that tremendous bulk, only her eyes seemed to move: small black, with short-lashed eyelids; there was no evidence that she breathed, no tremor disturbed her flesh, clad in a dress of black satin, which, despite her great mass, was frilled and ruffled like a child's frock and looked almost obscene."
A classic tale of ghostly revenge unfolds as the narrator describes his job as a desk clerk at The Sailor's Rest, a shabby, run down, hole in the corner inn. A place where the fog can walk in with a guest, or is it a ghost?
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