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The House in the Mist

Anna Katharine Green

Book Overview: 

A weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. "Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others can not be far behind," he is told. "What others?" he wonders, gazing at a stern portrait hanging on the wall. He finds he has chanced upon the gathering of friends and relatives of the man in the portrait. An inheritance is to be divided, all concerned must be present by the appointed hour. And this inheritance is so substantial that violence, murder, and vengeance from beyond the grave all await among the heirs.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Clapsaddle," she replied, waddling hungrily forward and getting unpleasantly near the speaker, for he moved off as she approached, and took his stand in the clear place at the head of the table.[Pg 29]

"Very good, Mistress Clapsaddle. You were a Westonhaugh, I believe?"

"You believe, sneak-faced hypocrite that you are!" she blurted out. "I don't understand your lawyer ways. I like plain speaking myself. Don't you know me, and Luke and Hector, and—and most of us indeed, except that puny, white-faced girl yonder, whom, having been brought up on the other side of the Ridge, we have none of us seen since she was a screaming baby in Hildegarde's arms. And the young gentleman over there,"—here she indicated me—"who shows so little likeness to the rest of the family. He will have to make it pretty plain who his father was before we shall feel like acknowledging him, either as the son of one of Eustace's girls, or a chip from brother Salmon's ha. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This was a quickie. In my "Complete Works of" it is included in her short stories, so I can only guess that this edition must be larger print. It is a somewhat macabre sort of story and would have been perfect for a Halloween reading. As in the title, a large house is surrounded in a mist. Of course

WHAT a surprising tale of revenge!

Hugh Austin, a wayfarer is traveling through the mist in Pennsylvania at about 7:45-ish when he comes upon a house with its doors and windows open and lights pouring out from it. A man leaving beckons him in saying dinner will be held at 9:00. What happens next warn

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