Trevor Collins

So, I mean, it is his story.

You might as well collect that and a bunch of other stories and sell it if you are getting some wind in your sails.

But doing this reprinting, I should say, he expanded on other supernatural legends that were spoken of during the time.

And those are kind of neither here nor there, but maybe add a little bit more to the story at hand.

So in the introduction of the novel, Macken details that he was approached by a priest who wanted permission to reprint the story, but instead into a pamphlet format.

Now, in order to do that, the priest requested sources that Macken used in order to write the story.

However, again, Macken was unable to complete this request because he was like, well, this is all just kind of off my mind.

This is all like from an invention of my creativity,

The story is fictitious, not real, even if some events feel real or ended up being real.

In fact, in the introduction of his 1915 novel, Macken wrote this, "...it seemed that my light fiction had been accepted by the congregation of this particular church as the solidest of facts, and it was then that it began to dawn on me that I had failed in the art of letters."

And it was then that it began to dawn on me that if I had failed in the art of letters, I had succeeded unwittingly in the art of deceit.

This happened, I should think, sometime in April, and the snowball of rumor that was then set rolling has been rolling ever since, growing bigger and bigger till it is now swollen to a monstrous size."

End quote.

A beautiful way to say that it got out of hand quick.

But I appreciate that this is in the novel.

He's like, it's not real.

Right.

You know, especially when you're like, well, I set out to do this, but I ended up doing this.

So I'm addressing it.

Right.