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The Walled-Up Nun

An illustration of a young nun being sealed behind a wall of bricks by a man in a white collared shirt. The nun is chained to the wall and cries out to the man with tears running down her face.

This illustration depicts the legend of a nun who was sealed alive in the walls of Borley Rectory. It accompanied a story titled “A Corpse Still Haunts England,” written by Horace Penrose and illustrated by Jack Bannister.

A PDF of the full story is available here.

Illustration by Jack Bannister, from pamphlet “A Corpse Still Haunts England,” Horace Penrose, in True Strange Stories, March, 1957, Weider Periodicals, Jersey City, N.J., in “Borley 49” scrapbook, Box 2, Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation Collection, Collection 331, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).

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