“Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.”

— Wilkie Collins

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice [Rose-Belford, 1878] ( p.288 https://books.google.com/books?id=zyFjcZUO3CUC&pg=PA288) <br class="br">Also in The Supernatural And English fiction by Glen Cavaliero [Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-192-12607-5] (p. 39)

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British writer 1824–1889

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