2 Results with the "Mabel Shirley" tag
1921 (1)
Admiralty Constabulary (1)
Cold War (1)
Dartmoor (1)
Devon (1)
Devon Folklore (1)
Divination (2)
Edwardian (1)
Esotericism (1)
esoteric phenomena (1)
esoteric traditions (1)
finding Mabel (14)
Folklore (1)
Ghosts (2)
ghost stories (1)
Investigation (1)
Mid-20th Century (5)
Military Secrecy (1)
mysticism (1)
naval base security UK (1)
Naval policing (1)
occult (1)
Occult Detective (1)
paranormal (1)
Psychic Phenomena (1)
Spiritualism (2)
stories (1)
supernatural (1)
supernatural fiction (1)
supernatural storytelling (1)
supernatural writing (1)
The Hairy Hands of Dartmoor (1)
The Mabel Shirley Case Files (1)
Victorian (7)
Women Sleuths (1)
writing the supernatural (1)
WWII (1)
-
Correspondence: A gift of solace, to a young relative My dear child, It is the year 1967. I am eighty years of age. I have lived through the dismantling of empires and the arrival of an age that moves faster than the human spirit was ever meant to travel. But I do not write to you about history. History is only the scenery that…
-
A short story inspired by the 1921 Hairy Hands legend of Dartmoor Strange things happen on Dartmoor. They always have. It’s not Dartmoor’s fault, there are just certain places where the dark can get a little too close. As to its legends, they come from a time when nobody was really certain where the natural world ended and the supernatural began. However, one legend…
