The Thing from the Lake

A 1921 novel by Eleanor M. Ingram in which a New York man buys a neglected Connecticut farm beside a swampy lake, only to spend his first night there awakening to find himself holding a mysterious braid of a woman's hair, while a strange presence haunts the property.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic horror and the Gothic›Ghost stories and hauntings›Ghost novels and novellas

Reader

Adults›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic horror and the Gothic›Ghost stories and hauntings