Stories from Inside the Old House
John Francis Pike
A voice without a body.
Stories without explanation.
And a listener who does not yet know
why he has been chosen.
Some stories are told. Others are received.
Some are meant to change the listener.
Seeking refuge from the modern world, a lifelong student of esotericism settles into an aging Victorian mansion in a quiet country town. The house seems ideally suited to his solitary habits and unusual studies—until small, inexplicable disturbances suggest that its long history may not be as silent as it first appeared.
As the night unfolds, one uncanny tale gives way to another, each seemingly complete unto itself, yet each drawing him further into a pattern he does not recognize. What begins as an encounter with the inexplicable gradually becomes something more purposeful—a journey whose destination may have been determined long before he understood that he had embarked upon it.
Moving between the familiar and the strange, Stories from Inside the Old House explores the places where folklore, the occult, and the inexplicable converge—and the unsettling possibility that a story may impart something more than its teller intends.
