The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The fog did not lift. It thickened. It swallowed the streetlamps, the brick facades, the very air. It was a white silence. A heavy, woolen quiet. Professor Arthur Penhaligon woke with a taste of iron in his mouth. The taste of old coins. The taste of rust. He was not in his bed. He was in the study. The chair was cold. The clock on the mantel had stopped at three in the morning. The hands were...

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