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01 - Nightmare Tales by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Nightmare Tales

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Speaker 1: Forward of Nightmare Tales by Helena P. Blavotsky. This is
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Speaker 1: Read by Ben Tucker Forward. The world knows H. P. Vlovotsky,
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Speaker 1: chiefly by her encyclopedic knowledge, her occult powers, her unique courage.
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Speaker 1: This little book, composed of stories thrown off by her
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Speaker 1: in her lighter moments, shows her as a vivid graphic
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Speaker 1: writer gifted with brilliant imagination. The student will catch glimpses
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Speaker 1: of reality under the garb of fancy, and will know
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Speaker 1: that only the hand of an occultist could have added
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Speaker 1: some of the touches to the pictures. The Nightmare Tales
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Speaker 1: were rewritten during the last few months of the author's
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Speaker 1: pain stricken life. When tired with the drudgery of the
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Speaker 1: theosophical glossary, she who could not be idle, turned to
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Speaker 1: this lighter work, and found therein amusement and relax on.
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Speaker 1: Her friends all the world over will welcome this example
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Speaker 1: of gifts used but too rarely amid the strain of
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Speaker 1: weightier work. Annie Bessant end of forward,