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A pale, matted-furred, ape-like creature with one blue eye and one brown eye emerges from an earthen burrow beneath ruined masonry.
Entities & creatures

Martense descendants

The Martense descendants are the subterranean, human-derived creatures revealed at the end of The Lurking Fear. Their colony occupies burrows radiating from the abandoned mansion on Tempest Mountain. The narrator initially mistakes their attacks for the work of a single supernatural pursuer before their numbers, tunnel system and inherited mismatched eyes disclose a different origin.

4 min read · 826 words

An imagined chamber of old volumes and forbidden learning, lit in amber.
Literature

The Picture in the House

The Picture in the House follows a genealogical researcher who takes shelter from a storm in an isolated New England farmhouse. An old book and its owner’s increasingly disturbing conversation reveal that the apparent refuge may conceal a long history of predation. The final physical clue turns the host’s insinuations into an immediate threat just before lightning destroys the house.

5 min read · 934 words

Investigators descend through the buried layers beneath Exham Priory.
Literature

The Rats in the Walls

The Rats in the Walls follows an American descendant of the de la Poer family who restores an English ancestral house and discovers the terrible institution preserved beneath its foundations. Written in August–September 1923 and published in March 1924, it moves from architectural recovery and family research to an archaeological revelation that the narrator cannot keep separate from himself.

8 min read · 1,520 words