“Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter.” By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The Purcell Papers. 3 Vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880: 2.184-254.

“Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter.” By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Dublin University Magazine 13 (May 1839): 579-91.

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Schalken the Painter.

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            “For he is not a man as I am that we should come together; neither is there any that might lay his hand upon us both. Let him, therefore, take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.”