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Hannah's Secret single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1887... 1887 Hannah's Secret
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Gentle horror story. A mysterious and gentle woman rents a house in a quiet village but refuses to mix with the neighbours - maintaining a friendship at a distance only with the narrator. She explains that her child is mentally diminished and can not bear strangers - but when she is discovered murdered in the house with a broken pair of handcuffs dangling from the ceiling of a back room, it is clear there was another explanation ... Well-written, interesting blend of the genteel and the terrible. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 22 no. 262 March 1887 Z1045026 1887 periodical issue 1887 pg. 396-400
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