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Stories by Dr. H. Ashford

12 stories

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30
May 2026
Horror

What the Mirror Kept Behind Her

The inventory had been assigned to Miss Alderton on a Wednesday, which she considered neither auspicious nor otherwise — she was not, by temperament or training…

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23
May 2026
Horror

The Coroner Certifies the Hour

The body had been found at half past seven in the morning, which was, in Mr. Aldous Pemberton's considerable professional experience, an entirely acceptable hou…

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09
May 2026
Horror

The Handprint in the Lime

The following correspondence was recovered from the effects of Dr. Edmund Carver, formerly of Ashwick-on-Dene, Shropshire. The letters were found in a leather w…

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02
May 2026
Horror

The Letter That Knew Her Name

The rain had been falling since Thursday, which Miss Clara Voss considered a personal slight. She arrived at the vicarage at half past six in the evening, her s…

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25
Apr 2026
Horror

What the Violets Were Keeping

The coffin arrived on a Tuesday, which was already irregular, as museum deliveries came on Thursdays and the receiving dock was staffed accordingly. Mrs. Cecily…

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12
Apr 2026
Horror

What the Cabinet Kept Warm

The call came at twelve minutes past midnight, which Mrs. Vera Calloway considered an imposition of the first order. She had been a conservator of decorative ar…

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04
Apr 2026
Horror

The Catalogue of Inevitable Persons

The smell reached her before the light did. This is what Mrs. Ruth Ellery recorded in the notebook she kept in her cardigan pocket — the small green Silvine tha…

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14
Mar 2026
Horror

The Demonstrable Competence of Dr. Voss

Being excerpts from the private correspondence of Mr. Theodore Halloway, F.R.C.S., Curator of Surgical Instruments, The Whitmore Collection, London, addressed t…

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28
Feb 2026
Horror

The Particulars of Corvus

Being the private diary of Miss Emmeline Foss, engaged as governess to the Haverstock household, Dunmore Hall, North Yorkshire, commencing the fourteenth day of…

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21
Feb 2026
Horror

What the Pale Growth Remembers

From the personal diary of Mr. Edmund Crale, formerly employed as Head Groundskeeper at Blackwood Manor, Shropshire. The diary was discovered in the potting she…

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