H. Sivia 8 min read

'Letty, you've been a fine maid,' old Mr. DeBrugh tells his servant of fifteen years between puffs on his meerschaum, promising she'll be well cared for after he and Mrs. DeBrugh are gone.

H. Sivia's 1937 story is an atmospheric fantasy-horror tale of a household and its secrets. Eerie, well-turned, of its era. Read it for a quietly building period ghost story, where a kindly master's provisions for his loyal maid open onto something far darker than a simple bequest.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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