The Curse by Charles L. Grant

Author:Charles L. Grant [Grant, Charles L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Crossroad Press

Slowly she walked around the two-story house, making an elaborate show of testing the windows she could reach. There would be neighbors watching her, no doubt some resentful of her abrupt responsibility. The back door was locked, the yard overgrown with weeds and dying grass. She nodded as though she saw nothing unusual, returned to the front and scanned the second floor. Nervously, then, she fingered the key, stiffened and let herself in.

Eat your hearts out, she said to the curtains she knew would be fluttering all along The Lane. Theresa Ann O'Hare Guiness is in charge now.

The furnishings were meager at best, and what there was was wooden and unfriendly. Suddenly unsure of herself, she hurried through the rooms, saving the living area for last: the only room carpeted, the only one with upholstered chairs. Crawling to the door, the policeman had said, and from the scuffs in the carpet's thick pile she could see he had fallen by the fireplace, struck or grabbed onto the glass-topped coffee table and had tipped it over. A pipe lay on the slate hearth and tobacco spilled brownly toward the rug. She stared, shrugged, and turned to leave when something caught her eye.

Slowly she moved to the fireplace. She found a rusted poker lying beside a nearby chair and poked in the ashes until she had eased a small doll onto the hearth. "Well, I'll be damned," she said, and knelt to brush the sullen gray from its face and clothes. "A fella passing through, huh?"

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