The Hook January 1934 - The investigators receive a letter from their friend, Margaret Blackwood, a professor of British folklore and traditions. It invites them to meet in the quaint Devonshire village of Postbridge, where Blackwood has made a discovery regarding active worship of an ancient god. Before they set off, however, the morning’s paper annnounces her death in a mysterious car accident, attributed to a local ghost legend, known as the ‘hairy hands’.