The Devil's Foot: The root of it all

[wytchcroft]

Fittingly, it was through the fogs of the Turkish bath that young Malone spoke to Dr Watson, for if not quite a land of mist it was at least a cubicle. “So you see, the Daily Gazette have quite thrown me to the wolves and the central enigma of the Professor's spiritualist obsession remains unsolved.”

“Devil’s Foot Root,” whispered Watson.

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Comments

[stoshagownozad]

i remember that Devils's foot root story was the only which really made me chill (yes, of course, The Baskerville Dog and Speckled Band were chilly too... but not to such a degree). Probably that was because of real feeling of poisoning and hallucinations which Conan Doyle managed to describe...
woooo...

[wytchcroft]

YES! me too, very frightening story. all that madness - and again, strange Cornwall...