Short Fiction · Character

Mr. McDonough

A man with a haunted-house story to tell, whose account of the supernatural carries the weight of firsthand witness rather than idle gossip.

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Also known as a Mr. McDonough, McDonough

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Mr. McDonough is the sort of narrator whose tale of a haunted house is offered not as entertainment but as testimony, delivered with the plainness of a man who has seen something he cannot forget. His story draws its listeners into a world where the boundary between the natural and the supernatural is thinner than they would like to believe. As a teller of the uncanny, he serves as the story's bridge between ordinary conversation and the darker currents running beneath it, and his credibility is the hinge on which the tale's terror turns.

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