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    The Terror Of The Water-Tank
    The Terror Of The Water-Tank
    The Terror Of The Water-Tank
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    The Terror Of The Water-Tank

    By William Hope Hodgson

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    Crowning the heights on the outskirts of a certain town on the east coast is a large, iron water-tank from which an isolated row of small villas obtains its supply. The top of this tank has been cemented, and round it have been placed railings, thus making of it a splendid “look-out” for any of the townspeople who may choose to promenade upon it. And very popular it was until the strange and terrible happenings of which I have set out to tell.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateOct 19, 2016
    ISBN9781682995389
    The Terror Of The Water-Tank
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    William Hope Hodgson

    William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English author whose writing spanned genres from horror to fantasy to science fiction. His best-known works are The House on the Borderland and The Night Land, a futuristic novel depicting a grim vision of an earth without sun. 

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      The Terror Of The Water-Tank - William Hope Hodgson

      The Terror of the Water-Tank

      by William Hope Hodgson

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-538-9

      The Terror Of The Water-Tank

      by William Hope Hodgson

      Crowning the heights on the outskirts of a certain town on the east coast is a large, iron water-tank from which an isolated row of small villas obtains its supply. The top of this tank has been cemented, and round it have been placed railings, thus making of it a splendid look-out for any of the townspeople who may choose to promenade upon it. And very popular it was until the strange and terrible happenings of which I have set out to tell.

      Late one evening, a party of three ladies and two gentlemen had climbed the path leading to the tank. They had dined, and it had been suggested that a promenade upon the tank in the cool of the evening would be pleasant. Reaching the level, cemented surface, they were proceeding across it, when one of the ladies stumbled and almost fell over some object lying near the railings on the town-side.

      A match having been struck by one of the men, they discovered that it was the body of a portly old gentleman lying in

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