I made one backward spring into my room, and slammed and locked the door. Even as I did so, I thought I heard a sound in the passage, and quite near me. I realized all at once that I was doing a very silly thing, sitting there, and I jumped up. And then, suddenly, my lamp was put out, and I could not see a yard before me.
And then it came again-thud, thud, thud, and then a silence that was almost worse than the noise of the door for I kept fancying that some awful thing was stealing upon me along the corridor. Jove! how I did stare, and how I listened. I tell you, I felt horrible-as if my bones were water. The sound seemed to fill the whole of the large corridor, and go echoing hollowly through the house.
And then, as I stooped forward, staring and listening, there came the crashing thud of the door of the Grey Room. Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder Hodgson, William Hope ISBN: 9798393123536 Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. W seemed ridiculously dim by contrast with the tremendous blaze of the flash-power.
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