The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories 空房子和其他鬼故事
Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim atonce their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular featureneed betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuoussmile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable convictionthat there is something radically amiss with their being: that they areevil. Willy nilly, they seem to communicate an atmosphere of secret andwicked thoughts which makes those in their immediate neighbourhoodshrink from them as from a thing diseased.
Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim atonce their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular featureneed betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuoussmile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable convictionthat there is something radically amiss with their being: that they areevil. Willy nilly, they seem to communicate an atmosphere of secret andwicked thoughts which makes those in their immediate neighbourhoodshrink from them as from a thing diseased.