He retires to his room with all the windows shuttered and waits for the final visit. sees the visage staring through the gate. Finally they make him live with them in an apartment with no view of the street and locked gates, but by accident one is left open and the Capt. He insists on returning home and he starts to waste away. When his fiancée’s father returns, an old sea captain, he swears he will catch the devil and punish him. Then it becomes a figure, ranting horribly that he sees and is occasionally seen by others. It happens repeatedly, but only he can hear the sounds. When he got home the next day’s post contained a letter signed ‘the watcher’ warning him about walking down that street. After visiting his new young fiancée he walked home and heard footsteps follow him even though there was no person to be seen. Another of Dr Hesselius’ cases, this one involving a retired naval captain. The time gaps between its visits get closer together and the animal more persistent until the Rev. Jennings, is haunted by an apparition an evil monkey with red eyes that actively tries to stop him doing his job as reverend for a parish. A narrator tells a story made up from some letters to another man, a doctor, that detail a story a reverend told him. In each story there is an element of the supernatural, or is it? Could each ghostly visitation just be an attack of guilt? Could it be a man’s conscience making up an apparition to punish himself for past wrongs? The reader can decide.
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