The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood Fiction Horror Classics

<p><strong>From <em>The Empty House</em>: Certain houses like certain persons manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. </strong>With houses it is the aroma of evil deeds committed under a particular roof long after the actual doers have passed away that makes the gooseflesh come and the hair rise. Something of the original passion of the evil-doer and of the horror felt by his victim enters the heart of the innocent watcher and he becomes suddenly conscious of tingling nerves creeping skin and a chilling of the blood. He is terror-stricken without apparent cause. . . . </p>