It's 1913 on a foggy night when a phantom suddenly looms up in front of a train. The driver slams on the brakes, then finds the line is blocked. Miraculously saved, perhaps. But this was no angelic intervention. A large moth on the front lamp had cast its haloed shadow onto the mist. #PhantomsFriday
This is the imaginative plot of 'The Moth' by H C Hawtrey and Dorothea Conyers. It appeared in the September 1913 edition of The Strand Magazine.