Beasts with Five Fingers : Strange Tales of Disembodied Hands - Selma Lagerlof Genre:Classic horror & ghost stories Yet when she arrives

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Beasts with Five Fingers : Strange Tales of Disembodied Hands - Selma Lagerlof Genre:Classic horror & ghost stories Yet when she arrivesHe looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers, and slowly scratching the head of the parrot with the fourth. In 1919, W. F. Harvey published 'The Beast with Five Fingers', his quintessential tale of the disembodied hand with a murderous mind of its own, and its position as one of weird fiction's true classics was cemented by the 1946 film adaptation. Seeking to trace the origins of the haunted hand