Henry Kuttner 26 min read

When Carson first hears the sounds in his cellar, he blames the rats, until the Polish mill-workers whisper of Abigail Prinn, the diabolical witch who once lived in his ancient Salem house.

Henry Kuttner's 1937 Weird Tales story is a chilling Lovecraftian horror tale. Atmospheric, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for a classic of the Cthulhu Mythos, a writer in a cursed Salem house rousing an ancient witch's evil, complete with a walled crypt and a monstrous horned god waiting in the dark.

In its time

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

Reading it

26 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage