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The Uncanny Power of the Driver
"I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious command, and looking towards the sound, saw him stand in the roadway. This was also strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came upon me," he writes. "The time seemed interminable as we swept on our way, now in almost complete darkness for the rolling clouds obscured the moon." The old man held an antique lamp without any kind of flame or globe which threw long, quivering shadows into the cold winter night. He said: 'Welcome to my house freely, and enter freely at your own will' Then there were rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts brought back. A key was turned with a loud