Darius Pallermo
Jennings spoke with the careful precision of a man accustomed to scientific observation, yet beneath his composed tone I detected lurking horror. He said: ‘I noticed first a small, twitching movement in the reflection of the glass opposite my dressin...
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Jennings spoke with the careful precision of a man accustomed to scientific observation, yet beneath his composed tone I detected lurking horror. He said: ‘I noticed first a small, twitching movement in the reflection of the glass opposite my dressing table. It seemed as though a monkey peered at me between the plates of glass. I shook my head, half in wonder, half in alarm. Yet when morning came, the reflection vanished—but not the dread I carried with me.’ He then described how each night the creature returned: sometimes as a pale, staring face; sometimes as the faint curl of a tail on the mirror’s edge. Hesselius writes to a colleague: “The form remains invisible to all except Jennings; and with each appearance its mockery deepens, its malignity becoming nearly tangible. He sleeps little, eats less, and is haunted—haunted beyond the power of reason to explain.
