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Mr. Hyde—
and Seek
By

Malcolm M. Ferguson

Drawing of a priest, holding a up a cross, confronting a recoiling poltergeist, shown in a jagged photo-negative-like aura.
Drawing of a priest, holding a up a cross, confronting a recoiling poltergeist, shown in a jagged photo-negative-like aura.

A New England farmhouse, could it shelter a poltergeist?

Heading by Matt Fox


"From the way you describe it, doctor, the Orne Place does indeed sound as if it had a poltergeist bouncing around inside it," Thomas Chadwick reflected, turning the nutmeg grounds about in the tumbler in his gaunt, weatherstained hand. "Which is, of course more readily said than settled. For how does one cope with such a critter? Assuming that Eliza Blaine is host—or hostess, rather—for this manifestation, should she and it be treated according to the concepts which the psychologists use when they so gingerly deal with such a phenomenon, or 86