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And it’s here, the next Tales of the Last Edwardian<\/em> short story.<\/p>\n

More of a ghostly tale this time, and still free to download as a taster of larger works to come.\u00a0 The fourth will probably be a novella this autumn, unless I do finally find the missing chapters from the middle of A House of Clay<\/em>, my Abigail and Henry full length occult detective novel! If they’re in the garage, the rats will have had them anyway. I must set Django loose in there.<\/p>\n

If you like the story, please review it or make a comment – feedback is always welcome. If you don’t like it, then hide. I’m coming for you…<\/p>\n

STORY REMOVED LATE 2016\u00a0 FOR SUNDRY NEFARIOUS PLANS…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And it’s here, the next Tales of the Last Edwardian short story. More of a ghostly tale this time, and still free to download as a taster of larger works to come.\u00a0 The fourth will probably be a novella this autumn, unless I do finally find the missing chapters from the middle of A House … Continue reading One Last Sarabande<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,14,5],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-edwardian","tag-horror","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"\nOne Last Sarabande - greydogtales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/one-last-sarabande\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Last Sarabande - greydogtales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"And it’s here, the next Tales of the Last Edwardian short story. 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