“All the same, strange enough things happen in life . . . even if you leave out ghosts, that you can’t clear up by laughing. You laugh till you’ve had some experience big enough to shock"
I have never spent Christmas alone before.
But you’re not alone are you?
What had I liberated from that vile prison of crude paint?
Night, and especially Christmas night, is the best time to listen to a ghost story. Throw on the logs! Draw the curtains! Move your chairs nearer the fire and hearken!
"It happened twice in my time. It will never happen again, they say..."
For a moment he hesitated, wondering if he would not better keep to his road, but his weird companion seemed to draw him on irresistibly, and finding it sweet to follow, he followed.
A cold finger seemed to touch us all. For that moment we all felt that something odd and unpleasant had just happened–and was likely to happen again.
“Wanted, sir—a patient."
"You don’t think you’ll kill her, Ethel?"
One "Creepy" Night in a House of Death
