
Starting with his skull.

Saucy, there’s a word you don’t hear used that much anymore.
Pretty much forgotten today, Wallace use to be THE big time thriller author with one in four books being read during his hay day said to be one of his.
Fame is fleeting.
Story Title: The Bradys and the Witch Woman; or, The Mystery of Mulberry Bend.
Caption: The witch woman made a rush for the table and began knocking over the candles. “Here, here, woman! What are you about?” cried Old King Brady as he and Harry entered the room.
“It’s called wicca and it’s empowering!” Lisa Simpson
The New York Family Story Paper. June 11, 1887
A Southern Princess; or, Virginia’s Fairest Daughter. A Romance of the Sunny South Before the War. by Mrs. Emma Garrison Jones
Hildegarde did not answer. / “Princess Hildegarde,” shouted Sir Archibald, “let it be as you say. He shall win who can; not only for to-day, but for all time.”
The girl, springing suddenly from his side, shrieking wildly, “mother! mother! I come to thee!” Plunged into the seething water.
From a 1868 story paper.
Frank Leslie’s Boys’and Girls’ Weekly
The Young Turtle-Hunters; or, The Lost Treasures of the Hunted Lagoon. By Matt Marling
New York, January 22 1881
Dolores, who had caught up a cutlass from the arms cheft in the closet, brought the keen blade down on the mate’s shoulder.
Saturday Night, Philadelphia, Saturday, August 4, 1877
She bent forward, and almost hissing the words, “you are false and a traitor”, she drew back her arm and and gave one fierce thrust.








