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Night Creature Breaks into Handmaiden’s Bedroom — Puppy Unharmed
Slocum’s Hollow Daily Gazette, August 5, 1890
Slocum’s Hollow Daily Gazette, August 5, 1890
Around 11 o’clock last evening, a night creature gained entry into the bedroom of Lucinda Van Seiss. The monster broke several items in the room, including a prized decorative platter, before being fended off by the home’s occupant.
Van Seiss, 27, reports that she woke to a strange sound some time around midnight. She eventually identified the sound as that of claws scraping on window glass. Her identification struck her as particularly curious because her bedroom sits on the top story of the house of her employer, Mr. Jacob Parson, owner of Slocum’s Hollow Textiles.
Upon being sighted, the creature crashed through the bedroom window. Van Seiss remembers the monster’s appearance as a chaotic impression of glowing green eyes and long, whirling silver hair.
In its wild frenzy, the creature knocked over a nightstand and a vanity, breaking the vanity’s mirror and several other items. One of those items was a decorative family heirloom dinner platter.
Van Seiss’s puppy Albert, a gift from Mr. Parson, leaped into action. Van Seiss’s instinct to protect the brave, foolish dog finally compelled her forward.
