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The Gibbet Inn - The narrator
arrives at a gloomy village inn at Manton and, on jokingly enquiring of
the barmaid how the pub came by its grim name, learns that it was because
they hung her father "across the way on the village green, you see." Ellen,
for that is her name, is soon joined by a bulbous, piggy-eyed wretch who
cuffs her for talking to the stranger and orders him to leave. He wanders
on until he arrives at the church where he learns that he's just encountered
two spectres and the revenant of a long gone pub. The girl, Ellen, commited
suicide by slashing her throat with a broken bottle in 1783 after her father,
Jacob Farley, caved in the head of young Tom Reynolds with a stake when
he learned of their affair. The villagers then hung him. The priest consoles
him by telling him that he's indeed fortunate he didn't see Reynolds ghost,
as the three people who have all died shortly afterward ...
A Country Tale Pan Horror
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