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Everything is fair game in horror.

Everything. What follows may disturb you.

Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly Horror Podcast. This week's story was originally published in the Strand magazine,

so fancy Sherlock Holmes both read it and appeared in it in December 1897. Its author was Charles Grant Bleffinde Allen, a Canadian

science writer of novelist and a public promoter of evolution in the second half of

the 19th century. In the early 1880s, Alan turned his attention to fiction and between 1884 and 99

produced about 30 novels. In 1895 his scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did

Promigating Certain Stardling Views on Marriage and Kindred Questions

became a bestseller.

The book told the story of an independent woman who has a child out of wedlock.

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Alan also became a pioneer in science fiction with a novel the British Barbarians in 1895.

This book, published about the same time as

H.G. Wells, the time machine, also described time travel, although the plot

is very different. He's an interesting author and one well worth tracking down

and like an awful lot with the people that we keep finding in the

archives there are echoes of all the stories which spun up into public

consciousness and often they have more interesting perspectives or at

least more unusual perspectives when these ideas are played with by

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