The Thing from the Lake

CHAPTER I

"As well give up the Bible at once, as our belief in apparitions."--WESLEY.

The house cried out to me for help.

In the after-knowledge I now possess of what was to happen there, that impression is not more clearly definite than it was at my first sight of the place. Let me at once set down that this is not the story of a haunted house. It is, or was, ...