{"product_id":"2940013087774","title":"Tales of Terror and Mystery","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTales of Terror\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Horror of the Heights\u003cbr\u003e  The Leather Funnel\u003cbr\u003e  The New Catacomb\u003cbr\u003e  The Case of Lady Sannox\u003cbr\u003e  The Terror of Blue John Gap\u003cbr\u003e  The Brazilian Cat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTales of Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Lost Special\u003cbr\u003e  The Beetle-Hunter\u003cbr\u003e  The Man with the Watches\u003cbr\u003e  The Japanned Box\u003cbr\u003e  The Black Doctor\u003cbr\u003e  The Jew's Breastplate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTales of Terror\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Horror of the Heights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the\u003cbr\u003eJoyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some\u003cbr\u003eunknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has\u003cbr\u003enow been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most\u003cbr\u003emacabre and imaginative of plotters would hesitate before linking his\u003cbr\u003emorbid fancies with the unquestioned and tragic facts which reinforce\u003cbr\u003ethe statement.  Though the assertions contained in it are amazing and\u003cbr\u003eeven monstrous, it is none the less forcing itself upon the general\u003cbr\u003eintelligence that they are true, and that we must readjust our ideas to\u003cbr\u003ethe new situation.  This world of ours appears to be separated by a\u003cbr\u003eslight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and\u003cbr\u003eunexpected danger.  I will endeavour in this narrative, which\u003cbr\u003ereproduces the original document in its necessarily somewhat\u003cbr\u003efragmentary form, to lay before the reader the whole of the facts up to\u003cbr\u003edate, prefacing my statement by saying that, if there be any who doubt\u003cbr\u003ethe narrative of Joyce-Armstrong, there can be no question at all as to\u003cbr\u003ethe facts concerning Lieutenant Myrtle, R. N., and Mr. Hay Connor, who\u003cbr\u003eundoubtedly met their end in the manner described.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Joyce-Armstrong Fragment was found in the field which is called\u003cbr\u003eLower Haycock, lying one mile to the westward of the village of\u003cbr\u003eWithyham, upon the Kent and Sussex border.  It was on the 15th\u003cbr\u003eSeptember last that an agricultural labourer, James Flynn, in the\u003cbr\u003eemployment of Mathew Dodd, farmer, of the Chauntry Farm, Withyham,\u003cbr\u003eperceived a briar pipe lying near the footpath which skirts the hedge\u003cbr\u003ein Lower Haycock.  A few paces farther on he picked up a pair of broken\u003cbr\u003ebinocular glasses.  Finally, among some nettles in the ditch, he caught\u003cbr\u003esight of a flat, canvas-backed book, which proved to be a note-book\u003cbr\u003ewith detachable leaves, some of which had come loose and were\u003cbr\u003efluttering along the base of the hedge.  These he collected, but some,\u003cbr\u003eincluding the first, were never recovered, and leave a deplorable\u003cbr\u003ehiatus in this all-important statement.  The note-book was taken by the\u003cbr\u003elabourer to his master, who in turn showed it to Dr. J. H. Atherton, of\u003cbr\u003eHartfield.  This gentleman at once recognized the need for an expert\u003cbr\u003eexamination, and the manuscript was forwarded to the Aero Club in\u003cbr\u003eLondon, where it now lies.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145543467248,"sku":"2940013087774","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013087774_p0.jpg?v=1763576394","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013087774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}