The Demon Clock single work   short story  
Note: Adapted from the French for the Australian Journal by E. Branfill Harrison. (PB)
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 The Demon Clock
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Bizarre tale set in Berne, Switzerland. A Jewish merchant is discovered hanging in the pendulum chains of his clock. His servant is found semi-imbecilic and is tried for murder. The true story of the old Jew's crazed suicide only emerges when another Jewish merchant appears in court and sets the strange clock going again. Tale of the supernatural; vague sense of horror. Similar tale published before - probably not identical - but strangulation by infernal clock machinery is familiar. (PB)

Notes

  • See "The Fatal Door" in AJ, 1890. (MJ)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 27 no. 321 February 1892 Z1038263 1892 periodical issue 1892 pg. 318-321
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