Take Your Time, Gentlemen

Florence was a child prodigy, reciting poetry at age two and writing complete poems by six. Her grandfather encouraged her reading, providing her with classics such as The Arabian Nights, Bulfinch's Age of Fable, and children's versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Her grandfather also stirred young Florence's interest in the weird by telling her his own original tales of Gothic horror. Her mother, on the other hand, worried that these stories would corrupt her.

Her interest in the weird flourished over the years until she became a practitioner of spiritualist channelling, mediumistic arts and mind reading. (Some have claimed at the cost of a bit of her sanity she became...) An occult master and by her twenty fifth birthday a leading expert in the field of the Weird.

Nightly she prays from the Book of Dzyan (her Bible), and follows the three declared objects of the Theosophical Society -

• First — To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour.
• Second — To encourage the study of Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Science.
• Third — To investigate the unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man