THE DEVIL OF THE MARSH (1893) – Written by H.B. Marriott Watson. Halloween Month continues with this review of a short horror piece about a unique female monster who inhabits the marsh. The story was first published in the 1893 collection Damnable Tales.
An unnamed narrator is making his way through the Great Marsh to once again meet with a seemingly beautiful woman with whom he has flirted and fallen in “love”. They have only ever met after dark and on the moors.
So enthralled is our narrator by the woman’s allure that he willingly overlooks all the weirdness of their courtship. After their most recent rendezvous he asked her to run away with him but she insisted that their first act of lovemaking take place deep within the marsh.
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