The Shunned House
Providence - 1761–1924
The Rhode Island house on Benefit Street drinks its tenants through a sealed well and a thing that grows in the cellar - until nuclear chemistry and courage end a dynasty of yellow-eyed death.
The house was a hell of eldritch contamination.
Final report, Providence inquiry
Overview
For generations the shunned house on Benefit Street killed slowly - wasting sickness, yellow eyes, whispers in walls. The narrator and Dr. Burke researched deeds back to Etienne Roulet, French sorcerer, and found the well in the cellar was mouth, not water source.
Something in the soil grew as mist and pseudopod, fed by bodies interred in walls. Science and superstition allied: sulfur, acid, and a flask opened in the pit ended the lineage.
Narrative Record
Night watches recorded faces in vapour, phosphorescence climbing stairs. Excavation revealed bones in plaster, Roulet's crimes, a core of alien tissue that was not ghost but organism - parasite of place.
The climax used chemical fire; the house stood empty afterward, still shunned by neighbours who need no deed to know.
Witnesses & Aftermath
Providence papers reported gas explosion; archive holds chemical logs. Property remains vacant; rental applications are denied by unofficial consensus.
Similar 'sick houses' in Salem and Newport were surveyed; two were demolished.
Archive Notes
Hauntings with biological samples are not spiritualism - they are infestation. Bring chemists as well as clergy. If eyes yellow in a tenant, evacuate the block. Roulet proves colonial America imported more than tea.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record STY-126. Access subject to institutional review.
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