Carson, a novelist who has rented an old house on Derby Street in Salem, puts the noises in his cellar down to rats. Then he hears the tales the Polish mill workers whisper about the first owner of the house, a witch of the 1690s, and uncovers a hidden chamber where something from her time is still waiting.
A 1937 Weird Tales story in the Lovecraft circle by a writer who became a master of science fiction. Download the free EPUB.