"One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke."
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Shortly after Olivia went away with the Nawab, Beth Crawford returned from Simla.
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I wake up on houseboat wearing a trilby.
A street library find!
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"Lily Wilder's boots crunched through smooth gravel as she made her way from the barn to the lodge, surveying her favorite place on earth."
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"The ghost stories and strange tales that make up this book are set in the ancient Japanese province of Shinshu, or Shinano (now Nagano Prefecture), located in the center [sic] of Japan's main island of Honshu, a region intersected by three mountain ranges, mist-covered streams and a number of large and fast-flowing rivers."
At about ½ way through, the blurb descriptors of spine-chilling, spooky & terrifying ??
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"There is no lack of drama in my life, I have more than enough three-ring-circus material for writing, but even so, I always approach the seventh of January with trembling."
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Not really the first line but it is on the first page.
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In a country near the Kingdoms of Romance, there once was a wicked king named Tecserion: no one ever saw him smile; he knew no pleasures but doing evil; in addition he had a figure that Nature seemed to have given him to make him hated all the more; in a word, his ugliness equalled the wickedness of his character.
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