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 ”I TOOK a large room, far up Broadway, in a huge

old building whose upper stories had been

wholly unoccupied for years, until I came. The

place had long been given up to dust and cobwebs,

to solitude and silence. I seemed groping among

the tombs and invading the privacy of the dead, that

first night I climbed up to my quarters. For the

first time in my life a superstitious dread came over

me; and as I turned a dark angle of the stairway

and an invisible cobweb swung its slazy woof in my

face and clung there, I shuddered as one who had

encountered a phantom…”