The Distant Threshold
The fire in the central hearth of Blackwood Manor did not burn; it devoured. It was a localized phenomenon, confined strictly to the library’s east wing, where the shadows detached themselves from the furniture and pooled in the corners like spilled ink, independent of the gaslight’s flicker. Arthur Vane, a thirty-four-year-old estate clerk with ink-stained fingers and a spine rigid with...
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