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This episode is Chapter 2 of 5.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835 - 1915) was a well-known and successful author in Victorian England, yet her stunning short ghost stories have mostly gone unremembered.

Each week this podcast will share one of these classic gothic gems.

Read and recorded by Holly Creed

Original music by Abigail Macmillan

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