Eleanor M. Ingram 3 hr 46 min read

The dilapidated old farmhouse cries out to be lived in, but from the moment its new owner arrives, a midnight menace rises from the nearby lake to besiege the house and everyone in it.

Eleanor M. Ingram's 1921 novel is an atmospheric occult-horror tale. Eerie, dread-soaked, gripping. Read it for a genuinely creepy haunting-that-isn't-a-haunting, a city man's country retreat besieged by an unspeakable thing from the water, in a moody, well-written supernatural thriller of the classic weird-fiction era.

In its time

Published in 1921, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).