Three authors reveal the obscure corners of the occult. In LeFanu`s Dickon the Devil the narrator discovers that the sinister ghosts of the past have never left Barwyke Hall. Rudyard Kipling tells the story of a man who disappears mysteriously. In Hawthorne`s The Minister`s Black Veil, the Puritan Reverend Hooper is plagued by a terrible secret sin that forces him to wear a black veil.