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Title: Strange Pages from Family Papers

Author: T. F. Thiselton Dyer

Release Date: November 11, 2005 [EBook #17050]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "FOR THE BLAST OF DEATH IS ON THE HEATH, AND THE
GRAVE YAWNS WIDE FOR THE CHILD OF MOY."]

STRANGE PAGES

FROM

FAMILY PAPERS

By T.F. THISELTON DYER

AUTHOR OF

"GREAT MEN AT PLAY," "CHURCH LORE GLEANINGS,"
"THE GHOST WORLD," &C.

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
LIMITED
St. Dunstan's House,
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1895

LONDON:
PRINTED BY HORACE COX, WINDSOR HOUSE,
BREAM'S BUILDINGS, E.C.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
Fatal Curses page 1

CHAPTER II.
The Screaming Skull 29

CHAPTER III.
Eccentric Vows 46

CHAPTER IV.
Strange Banquets 69

CHAPTER V.
Mysterious Rooms 88

CHAPTER VI.
Indelible Bloodstains 114

CHAPTER VII.
Curious Secrets 135

CHAPTER VIII.
The Dead Hand 154

CHAPTER IX.
Devil Compacts 162

CHAPTER X.
Family Death Omens 180

CHAPTER XI.
Weird Possessions 198

CHAPTER XII.
Romance of Disguise 208