The Devotee of Evil
by Clark Ashton Smith
(Author of "City of Singing Flame," "The Double Shadow," etc.)
People often talk of the forces of Evil but has anyone ever done anything about it?
The old Larcom house was a mansion of considerable size and dignity, set among oaks and cypresses on the hill behind Auburn's Chinatown, in what had once been the aristocratic section of the village. At the time of which I wrote, it had been unoccupied for several years and had begun to present the signs of desolation and dilapidation which untenanted houses so soon display. The place had a tragic history and was believed to be haunted. I had never been able to procure any first-hand or precise accounts of the
spectral manifestations that were ac-
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