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The
Haunted
By
Anna Kingsford
Complain
to management about the weird
goings-on
and they tell you it’s room service
From Dreams and
Dream Stories
I seemed in my
vision to be on a long and wearisome journey, and to have arrived
at an
consisted of a bedroom and parlor, communicating, and
furnished in an antique
manner, everything in the rooms appearing to be
worm-eaten, dusty and out of
date. The walls were bare and dingy; there was not a
picture or an ornament in
the apartment. An extremely dim light prevailed in the
scene; indeed, I do not
clearly remember, whether, with the exception of the fire
and a night-lamp, the
rooms were illumined at all. I seated myself in a chair
by the hearth; it was
late, and I thought only of rest. But, presently, I
became aware of strange
things going on about me. On a table in a corner lay some
papers and a pencil.
With a feeling
of indescribable horror I saw this pencil assume an erect
position and begin of itself to write on the paper,
precisely as though an invisible hand held and guided it.
At the same
time, small detonations sounded in different parts of the room; tiny bright
sparks appeared, burst, and immediately expired in smoke. The pencil having
ceased to write, laid itself gently down, and taking the paper in my hand I
found on it a quantity of writing which at first appeared to me to be in
cipher, but I presently perceived that the words composing as it were written
backwards, from right to left, exactly as one sees writing reflected on a
looking glass.
What was
written made a
considerable impression on me at the time, but I cannot now
recall it, I know, however, that the dominant feeling I experienced was one of
horror.
I called the
owners of the inn and related to them what had taken place. They
received my statement with perfect equanimity, and told me
that in their house
this was the normal state of things, of which, in fact,
they were extremely
proud: and they ended by congratulating me as a visitor
much favored by the
invisible agencies of the place.
“We call them
our Lights,” they said.
“It is true,” I
observed, “that I saw lights in the air about the room, but they
went out instantaneously, and left only smoke behind
them. And why do they write
backwards? Who are They?”
As I asked this
question, the pencil on the table rose again, and wrote thus on
the paper: —
“ksatonoD”
Again horror
seized on me, and the air becoming full of smoke I found it impossible to
breathe. “Let me out!” I cried, “I am stifled here, — the air is full of
smoke!”
Outside, the
people of the house answered, “you will lose your way; it is quite dark, and we
have no other rooms to let. And,besides, it is the
same in all the other apartments of the inn.”
“But the place
is haunted!” I cried; and I pushed past them, and burst out of
the house.
Before the
doorway stood a tall veiled figure, like translucent silver. A sense
of reverence overcame me. The night was balmy, and bright almost as day with
resplendent starlight. The stars seemed to lean out of heaven;
they looked down
on me like living eyes, full of [Page 63] a strange
immeasurable sympathy. I
crossed the threshold, and stood in the open plain,
breathing with rapture and relief the pure warm air of that delicious night.
How restful, calm, and glorious was the dark landscape, outlined in purple
against the luminous sky !
And what a
consciousness of vastness and immensity above and around me !
" Where
am I ? " I cried.
The silver
figure stood beside me, and lifted its veil. It was Pallas Athena.
"Under the Stars of the East", she
answered me, " the true eternal Lights of
the World."
After I was
awake, a text in the Gospels was vividly brought to my mind: —
"There was
no room for them in the
rooms of which are haunted, and in which the Christ
cannot be born ? And this
open country under the eastern night, — is it not the
same in which they were "
abiding," to whom that Birth was first angelically
announced ?
ATCHAM,
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