This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... ZEPPELIN NIGHTS CHAPTER I i: - --*.---■ THERE was no panic; only London lay, breathing heavily, oppressed by a nightmare such as the most ferocious minds of the darkest of the Dark Ages did not dream of. The very conception of the Night Hag that rides, descending on the sleepless one, weighing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... ZEPPELIN NIGHTS CHAPTER I i: - --*.---■ THERE was no panic; only London lay, breathing heavily, oppressed by a nightmare such as the most ferocious minds of the darkest of the Dark Ages did not dream of. The very conception of the Night Hag that rides, descending on the sleepless one, weighing on his chest through the long hours from even to dawn, possessing him the while with fearful dreams, we owe to the nation that then cast the advance shadows of its threatened Kultur upon us. The Night Hag herself is nothing but the product of German indigestion, and it is only German thought that can so aggrandize this very ordinary malaise, investing its manifestations with gruesome melodrama, giving it the coarse touch of their crude, undisciplined fancy. It was this pre-eminently German spectre which rode us all those summer months terrifying some of us beyond mental endurance; making us all, strong and weak, profoundly wretched and uneasy, filled with a restlessness that was worse than pain. Over us in the day-time the Spectre, brooding, .her prpp
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