Description
A young Viscount married and widowed within the same night. No physical description survives in the vault beyond the circumstances of his death.
Background
Viscount Huntley married Harriet Palmer at Bath Abbey in a lavish ceremony in May 1814. The marriage did not survive the night. In the small hours after the wedding, he died in the honeymoon suite, leaving behind only his shrivelled heart in a pool of green ichor — the working of a curse that had waited for the wedding to close its hand.
The valet who took up his body and effects, intending to entomb the heart in the family crypt, was intercepted and murdered by a man named Francis Fable, who stole the heart away and hid it in a Bath church. Fable had his own design on it, tied to the bones of a Siren he had found beneath the city and meant to bind at the coming new moon. The investigating party — drawn in by Harriet’s desperate appeals — traced the curse to the Siren’s cave beneath the river and ultimately stopped Fable’s ritual, though the Siren itself was left unbound.
Connections
- Harriet Palmer — widow, married mere hours before his death.
- Francis Fable — stole his heart from the valet who was to entomb it; pursued his own occult design with it. (Not yet a filed vault entity.)
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Family
- Harriet Palmer (unfiled) warmMarried at Bath Abbey, May 1814; widowed within hours by a curse that killed him on their wedding night