"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 4: The Spectre Bride

“The Spectre Bride” by Friedrich August Schulze comes from German Stories (1826), translated by Robert Pearse Gillies. You can read it today and tomorrow on my Patreon.

 
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