{"id":51468,"date":"2021-06-28T10:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51468"},"modified":"2021-06-28T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:45:27","slug":"a-gothic-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-gothic-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gothic Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eel Marsh House<\/p>\n<p>imagine \u00a0it, unlived in<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">On An island\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>once a day<\/p>\n<p>cut off by the tides<\/p>\n<p>the old house<\/p>\n<p>very very grey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>only mythical beings and phantoms<\/p>\n<p>dare I say<\/p>\n<p>would even contemplate a stint<\/p>\n<p>by living so far away<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>normality in gothic times<\/p>\n<p>where afflictions come and go<\/p>\n<p>where history had produced a tale<\/p>\n<p>of a boys death<\/p>\n<p>deep below<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the muddy quicksand sadly<\/p>\n<p>the horse reared \u00a0and the cart<\/p>\n<p>tipped into the \u00a0waiting ooze<\/p>\n<p>Breaking a mothers heart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that mother died and was buried<\/p>\n<p>her child was lost for sure<\/p>\n<p>the haunting was contagious<\/p>\n<p>the villagers knew more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>they had not been able<\/p>\n<p>to save her or her darking son<\/p>\n<p>and thus \u00a0a darkened aura<\/p>\n<p>Was generally then spun<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Children began dying<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">when a certain Mr Kipps\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>was charged to deal<\/p>\n<p>with the domain<\/p>\n<p>To go to Eel Marsh House<\/p>\n<p>the paperwork \u00a0and a chain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of experiences forthcoming<\/p>\n<p>this young man<\/p>\n<p>knew he must<\/p>\n<p>try to sort the mystery<\/p>\n<p>that brought so much disgust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>he had lost his wife<\/p>\n<p>to childbirth<\/p>\n<p>and was ruffled one might say<\/p>\n<p>but made the trip<\/p>\n<p>and investigated<\/p>\n<p>the trauma of the day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the heartache and the suffering<\/p>\n<p>of a mother \u00a0who had lost<\/p>\n<p>her dear son in the mounting ooze<\/p>\n<p>a truly heavy cost<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that clearly played upon her mind<\/p>\n<p>in phantom speak no doubt<\/p>\n<p>how sorry and her sadness<\/p>\n<p>her remorse how it was out<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>in the house \u00a0in phantom form<\/p>\n<p>a mother searching she<\/p>\n<p>needed to find her precious son<\/p>\n<p>at the bottom of the sea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kipps his wife had died<\/p>\n<p>and his son was all he had<\/p>\n<p>he realised to have lost so much<\/p>\n<p>really just how bad<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it is to live a life<\/p>\n<p>and found himself to be<\/p>\n<p>Investigating the hauntings<\/p>\n<p>and the wretched misery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>reading through the papers<\/p>\n<p>and visiting the need<\/p>\n<p>to satisfy the ghostly search<\/p>\n<p>of the mother \u00a0who did bleed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>where apparitions \u00a0do occur<\/p>\n<p>his son was sent to be<\/p>\n<p>with him in the village<\/p>\n<p>where the women in Black we see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>frequenting the old house<\/p>\n<p>and the cemetery<\/p>\n<p>He found the lost sons body<\/p>\n<p>in the quicksand\u2019s constancy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>he took the body back<\/p>\n<p>to where the mothers body \u00a0laid<\/p>\n<p>and put it in her casket<\/p>\n<p>Clearly he \u00a0obeyed<\/p>\n<p>his heart and soul<\/p>\n<p>and subsequently<\/p>\n<p>a light spread \u00a0over all<\/p>\n<p>His own \u00a0son came to visit him<\/p>\n<p>at the railways station wall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>his emotions were created<\/p>\n<p>when his son walked on the line<\/p>\n<p>with an express coming towards him<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kipps leapt down as fine and dandy<\/p>\n<p>in the shine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of the railway lights before him<\/p>\n<p>taken was he by<\/p>\n<p>his dead wife and his son and heir<\/p>\n<p>Floating towards the sky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>his good deed for joining<\/p>\n<p>The women in the black<\/p>\n<p>with her son from the darkly ooze<\/p>\n<p>which won him his family back<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eel Marsh House imagine \u00a0it, unlived in On An island\u00a0 once a day cut off by the tides the old house very very grey &nbsp; 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