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Then he was struck by the fact that he looked curiously ill. His face—ordinarily by no means attenuated—seemed to have fallen in, there were dark circles under his eyes, and the perturbed Lawrence, observing him as the meal progressed, thought that his manner, too, seemed strange and once or twice quite absent-minded.

To have the dream of a lifetime fulfilled -- and spoilt in the fulfilling; to enter at last the Promised Land, and find it a desert; that was the tragedy which, in her sixty-first year, had befallen meek, unimportant Ellen Wright, and was heavy on her now.

At this point, I can only reiterate: after the first two tales - from substantially early in her writing career - this has turned into a superior collection of Horror and/or Weird fiction. ‘Couching at the Door’ was another great entry.

'The Pestering" was terrific - the longest, and creepiest tale so far.

Third story, ‘The Window’, is my fave so far - we jumped ahead sixteen years (stories arranged chronologically), and I think I’m now in the hands of a veteran who has found her groove.