Frank Watson Frank Watson i(A79353 works by)
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1 The Sculptor's Warning Frank Watson , 1889 single work short story horror
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 24 no. 285 1889; (p. 329-330) Tale of the supernatural. A young English officer, scalped by Indians during a war in the last half of the 18th century, dies in the hut of a French settler, his Indian wife and their children. His ghost haunts the cottage which is generally untenanted until a Chicago sculptor comes to recuperate there in 1887 - and is visited by the ghost. Taking his appearance as a warning he starts him and is drowned when his steamer sinks ... (PB)
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