Mary Hartwell Catherwood 14 min read

East of the Giant's Stairway, where two round rocks give open ambush over a cove, the world's unobservant majority passes by, while one watcher waits, and a strange tale of the Blue Man unfolds.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood's 1899 story is an atmospheric fantasy-horror tale of the Great Lakes country. Lyrical, moody, evocative of place. Read it for a graceful period piece steeped in the beauty of an island shore, where an idle watcher's ambush opens onto something eerie and unforgettable.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

14 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).