Teaser Tuesdays: The Haunted Looking Glass

This week, I'm taking my teaser lines from one of my all-time favorites: The Haunted Looking Glass, from 1959.  It's a book of horror stories written by various authors, gathered and illustrated by Edward Gorey.  I read it for the first time when I was about eleven or twelve, and it's still a book I go back to over and over again for wonderful, scary reads.  This snippet comes from the first story in the book -- Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, "The Empty House":

There was manifestly nothing in the external appearance of this particular house to bear out the tales of the horror that was said to reign within. It was neither lonely nor unkempt. It stood, crowded into a corner of the square, and looked exactly like the houses on either side of it....
And yet this house in the square, that seemed precisely similar to its fifty ugly neighbors, was as a matter of fact entirely different -- horribly different. (p.6)

I do love me some haunted house stories around this time of year!

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