THE THING FROM THE LAKE
Book Details + Condition: Arno Press (New York). First Edition thus, 1976. Part of Arno Press' hard-to-find "Supernatural & Occult Fiction" collection. Facsimile reprint of the original publication by Eleanor Ingram, originally released in 1921. Hardcover with purple boards and silver titling to front and spine. 315 pages. Very scarce in this format. The story centers around Roger Locke, a successful New York composer of stage musicals who decides to buy a farm in rural Connecticut as an investment. The farmhouse is decrepit and stands near a stagnant lake. He decides to spend the night in his new home but awakens to find a woman in his bed, holding a knife to him in the darkness. She warns him to leave the house, and then disappears. Locke leaves the house to his cousin and his wife to manage while he is in New York, and when he returns, the lake has grown wider and deeper. From then on, he is visited by both the mysterious woman and an evil presence from the lake, who claims that the woman belongs to him and vows that Locke will be destroyed.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Book is in near-new, unread condition, with firm binding, bright boards, and a clean interior. Slight bump to upper corner. Please see our other listings for more rare Arno Press publications.
