The Withered Heart by G. G. Pendarves

"The Withered Heart" is a short story by the English author, G. G. Pendarves, first published in the November 1939 edition of Weird Tales. "Summoned to an isolated manor by an old friend, a man finds himself drawn into a midnight rite whose promise of ancestral power may conceal a far darker inheritance."

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