One summer Sunday in a quiet English village, something is missing—though no one can quite say what. The air hangs thick with heat, the hedgerows whisper, and down by the river, a tune drifts faintly on the breeze. As the hours pass, unease gathers like storm-clouds, though the sky remains clear. By evening, everything will be just as it was. Almost.
“How Pan Came to Little Ingleton” was first published in The London Mercury in 1933, and later reprinted in Fireside Ghost Stories (ed. Barbara Ireson, 1976).
Margery Lawrence (1889–1969) was an English author and spiritualist best known for her supernatural fiction. Her stories blend mysticism, folklore, and an enduring fascination with the unseen.
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