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Arthur thinks of running away but feels strangely drawn back to Eel Marsh House

Reminds me of Hill House, how is sort of beckons you

“…behind me, though I could not see, only sense her dark presence, hovered the woman [in black]”

Some of the details are classic tropes of the goth genre, yet so effective that I can’t help but be a little jumpy as I read

Arthur sees the woman in black more clearly than before. Her expression was one of a “desperate, yearning malevolence…she directed the purest evil and hatred and loathing with all the force that was available to her”

Arthur arrives at Eel Marsh House

Arthur was “growing impatient of the half-hints and dark mutterings made by grown men at the mention of Mrs. Drablow and her property.”

Arthur thought he escaped the fogs of London but a stranger tells him he’s mistaken

“We get bad frets…They roll up in a minute from the sea to land across the marshes…One minute it’s as clear as a June day, the next…Terrible.”

Arthur sent to acquire documents and such from a secluded home of a recently deceased woman, Mrs. Drablow

- isolated, marsh location

Arthur nearly has a panic attack on Christmas Eve when his step children and family pressure him to tell a ghost story.

He decides to tell it but not by the fire for entertainment. He’d write it all down, after the holiday