“To every
man there openeth
A way and
ways and a way
The high
soul treads the high way,
And the
low soul gropes the low,
And in
between on the misty flats,
The rest drift
to and fro.”
– John Oxenham
“John Oxenham”
was the pen name of Englishman William Arthur Dunkerly (1852-1941). Among Dunkerly’s
works of prose, poetry, and journalism, is the novel A Mystery of the
Underground (1897), which has the distinction of being one of the first
stories to feature a serial killer. The novel was so realistic that Londoners
refused to ride the rails on Tuesdays, the day when the murders would regularly
happen.
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