
Bert Redmond’s journey takes him from a bustling world of automobiles and ambition to the forgotten hamlet of Lenville, a dusty crossroads tucked among the Ramapo hills. There, a weathered church, a modest general store, and a cluster of cracked‑frame houses set the stage for an uneasy meeting with locals who whisper of strange lights and thunderous sounds from a crumbling mansion perched on the hill. Drawn by a desperate letter from Joan, he pushes his battered flivver up a winding, overgrown road, confronting both the eerie legends of the “big house” and a lingering sense of unfinished promises.
Inside the decaying estate, the air is thick with mildew and mystery, while a sudden, frantic dash of a white‑clad figure hints that Joan has indeed been waiting, though something feels terribly off. As Bert rushes to her side, the atmosphere crackles with an unseen tension that suggests the presence of forces far beyond ordinary folk tales. Listeners are invited to follow his cautious steps into a world where everyday reality blurs with the uncanny, promising a suspenseful exploration of love, fear, and the unknown.
Language
en
Duration
~55 minutes (53K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2009-07-14
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1893–1968
Best known from the early science-fiction pulps, this engineer-turned-writer filled his stories with planetary adventure, strange inventions, and the big imaginative sweep that shaped genre magazines between the wars.
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