![]() ![]() ![]() James then seemingly did write an ending to the book - and published it to wide distribution. James famously claimed that Dickens spoke to him during a séance and chose him to write the ending to the British author's unfinished work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. James, who lived in Brattleboro in the 1870s. ![]() The writing contest, first held a decade ago, pays homage to publisher, author and apparent con man T.P. ![]() They've buried and dug up fake UFOs, planted treasure in the woods, and hosted workshops to build musical instruments. Parker-Houghton and his wife, Cynthia, run the University of Brattleboro, a made-up institution that, for years, has put on free, whimsical activities based on local history. 4, mystery guy, like right out of a Dickens story." "He just wrote the piece and left," Rolf Parker-Houghton said. Six months later, the contest's organizers still don't know who this writer is. James' Write Like the Dickens" contest, which challenged locals to write a supernatural story in the style of Charles Dickens. His tale was stirring enough to be judged the winner of the eccentric "T.P. Last October, an older man with a straight nose, tan cap and bushy gray hair walked into Brattleboro's Brooks Memorial Library and penned a ghost story by hand. ![]()
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