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Chargement... Dickon the Devil [short story] (1872)par Sheridan Le Fanu
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The story is being told by an unnamed narrator who is acting for two sisters, the Misses Dymock. Twenty years ago they inherited Barwyke Hall in Lancashire when old Squire Bowers died without making a will.
The Squire was a mild-mannered man when he was alive. Dead, his ghost doesn't take kindly to the fact that two relatives he couldn't stand inherited his estate.
The narrator meets a lunatic called 'Dickon the devil'. After that, and an unexpected night visitor to his room in Barwyke Hall, he gets the reluctant under-steward Tom Wyndsour to tell him what's going on.
Mentions: the forest of Pendle, Mr. Ainsworth's 'Lancashire Witches', and Derbyshire.
The descriptions are good and the story of how Dickson came to be known as 'the devil' is sad, but I could have done with more of the ghost. ( )