THE TERROR OF THE WATER TANK (1907)
THE TERROR OF THE WATER TANK (1907)
SOURCES:
"The Terror Of the Water-Tank"
by William Hope Hodgson (The Blue Book, September 1907)
DESCRIPTION:"I went to the side and threw the light from my lantern downwards. It showed me a writing yellow something, like an eel or a snake, only the thing was flat like a ribbon. It was twining itself into knots. It had no head. That portion of it seemed to have been blown clean away." ("The Terror of the Water-Tank" by William Hope Hodgson)
NOTES: People are dying mysteriously near the old water-tank. The victims have been strangled by ghosts? The town doctor figures out the answer in the best amateur-detective fashion. The leech-like snake is of no variety familiar to the doctor/hero of the tale.
HISTORY: This supernatural-ish
mystery really belongs in the Carnacki canon. I wonder why it never was?
