The Kuttner, Henry 1915-1958 creator Brundage, Margaret 1900-1976 Mooney, Jim (James Noel) 1919-2008 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats The Salem horror by Henry Kuttner is a weird-fiction horror short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on the lingering curse of a Salem witch and the awakening of an eldritch force beneath an old house, blending occult lore, haunted history, and cosmic terror. A popular novelist named Carson rents a decrepit Salem house once owned by the witch Abigail Prinn and discovers a hidden “Witch Room” whose mosaic floor acts as a psychic focus. Drawn to work there, he becomes subtly controlled, suffers lost memories and night terrors, and is likely compelled to un-stake Prinn’s grave. An occultist, Michael Leigh, warns that the room bridges thought and matter and that Prinn serves Nyogtha, a shapeless Dweller in Darkness sealed beneath an iron disk in the chamber. One night the withered witch emerges and begins to raise the black, gelatinous horror; Leigh bursts in, wielding a crux ansata, a forbidden incantation, and a rare elixir to drive the entity back and seal the pit. The aftermath leaves Carson alive but changed—his light romances abandoned for grim, rejected tales—and the final image is a withered claw protruding from the sealed disk, a chilling token that the evil is not entirely gone. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-05-17 Alex White, Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net Originally published: Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 Short stories Horror tales Salem (Mass.) -- Fiction PS Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N05193705/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76108 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N05193705/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76108 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134748.0 76108