15-06-2021, 08:36 AM
garethni post_id=20290 time= user_id=1507 Wrote:He was supposedly from an earlier period, maybe Victorian. I remember the rather vivid illustration that I found quite scary.
Yes! I remember this, it was in the 1988 WAC Annual which I had at the time and, funnily enough, was looking at just a few weeks ago as it's still among a pile of my old books at my parents' house. It's exactly as you say, apparently some technician was working there the night before the first show and saw it, and was so nervous he got them to move the set to another part of the studio. And there was a suitably creepy illustration.
I was totally taken in by it at the time although I feel it's a story that may have been, at best, embellished for the book.