"The Red Hand", by Arthur Machen

This is just all the chapters put together into one upload. If you've been following along the whole time, there is nothing new to hear here.

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0:00:00 The Problem of the Fish-Hooks
0:14:41 Incident of the Letter
0:25:37 Search for the Vanished Heaven
0:38:31 The Artist of the Pavement
0:46:39 Story of the Treasure House

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From the annotations:

Abury: Avebury, a name of a village in Wiltshire and site of Neolithic henge. Sometimes called Abury, as by antiquarian William Stukeley (1687-1765) in his "Abury: A Temple of the British Druids" (1743).

mano in fica: "fig hand" - a sign used to avert the evil eye. [Although note that fig in Italian is actually 'fico', and 'fica' is rather a crude and rude term... Although I can't say what the case was a hundred+ years ago]

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: a Fuegian, from "Notable Voyages from Columbus to Nordenskïold" by W.H.G.K and H. Frith

Chapter 2: "Figa" by Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla. Ilustraciones de la obra: Lello universal em 2 volumes : novo diccionário encyclopédico luso-brasileiro / organizado e publicado pela Livraria Lello sob a direcçao de Joao Grave e Coelho Netto. - Porto : Lello & Irmao, [1940?]

Chapter 3: "Newgrange: entrance stone with megalithic art" by Jal74, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).

Chapter 4: Tuck's Oilette of a Victoria Embankment Screever, by Leonard Bentley, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 5: a gold-toned statue of the Greek god Pan, by TheDecapitatedGoat