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Death in the dusk

Chapter 35: Transcriber’s Note
By Virgil Markham
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A visiting antiquarian's journal recounts nine days of escalating mysteries at a rural country house, beginning with an unwelcome clerical intrusion and progressing through uncanny accidents, an enigmatic relic, suspicious deaths, and vanishings. The account tracks investigations, local superstitions, social rivalries among guests, and the influence of a calculating antagonist whose schemes intensify fear and disorder. Narrative episodes shift between methodical inquiry and eerie occurrences, leading to confrontations, revealing disclosures, and a fraught effort to make sense of the calamities that befell the household.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription follows the text of the Jacobsen Publishing Company edition published in 1928. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:

  • “Pharmond” has been changed to “Pharamond” (Preface).
  • “morsal” has been changed to “morsel” (Chapter IV).
  • “catridge-belt” has been changed to “cartridge-belt” (Chapter VII).
  • “rerespectively” has been changed to “respectively” (Chapter X).
  • “rcok” has been changed to “rock” (Chapter XV).
  • “scyamores” has been changed to “sycamores” (Chapter XXI).
  • “criss-crosing” has been changed to “criss-crossing” (Chapter XXII).
  • “mose” has been changed to “most” (Chapter XXIII).
  • “Mrs Belvoir” has been changed to “Mrs. Belvoir” (Chapter XXIII).
  • “Whimple” has been changed to “Whimble” (Chapter XXIV).
  • “had same funny bits” has been changed to “had some funny bits” (Chapter XXV).
  • Five occurrences of mismatched quotation marks has been repaired.