The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft

THE LURKING FEAR (thelovecraftvault.bandcamp.com/album/the-lurki…) first appeared in Home Brew, January–April 1923 (serialized in four parts). In the storm-ravaged hills of the Catskills, an investigative narrator braves the ruins of the ancient Martense mansion in search of the source of a series of grisly killings.