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October 2018
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John Loranger
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he old television series, “Night Gallery”, featured an episode I have seen several times since it aired in 1971. Though the series as a whole was hit-and-miss, I have always liked this particular episode; always found it to be spooky, and even rather sad. It is about a psychiatrist, played by David McCallum, falling in love with a woman who happens to be a werewolf (or a variation thereof). I recently decided to look at the original source of this “Night Gallery” episode: a short story called “The Phantom Farmhouse”, written by Seabury Quinn and published in 1923. The protagonist is a minister named John Weatherby who has been recuperating from some sort
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The Phantom Farmhouse Book Review of temporary paralysis in a sanitarium in Maine. During his stay, he spends much of the time imagining an idyllic house and small family hidden among the trees of a nearby forest. One evening, after recovering his ability to walk, he takes a stroll outside the sanitarium and discovers that the house he had imagined is real. Though some measure of apprehension accompanies his wonder, he is too intrigued not to pursue this discovery further. Later, he meets the house’s occupants: a middleaged, kindly-seeming couple whose grown daughter is ‘as slender and lovely as a Rossetti saint; as wonderful to the eye as a medieval poet’s vision of his lost love in paradise’. The woman and her parents welcome him into their home and a friendship commences. But a number of foreboding elements trouble (Continued on page 6)