The Bed by the Window

Fiction ~ short story
First published in Hutchinson's Story Magazine, July 1929
Collected in More Spook Stories (1934)
4,470 words
(First read 16/11/2012) 

The story is available online here.










THE CRITICS

[…] Pirates, The Hanging of Alfred Wadham, The Bed by the Window, The Step, The Sanctuary, and Monkeys - are indeed classics of the genre: these dark gems still shine from their fondly detailed settings, both geographical (Cornwall, Egypt, Norfolk) and thematic (recurrent dream, murder and retribution, black magic, vivisection, etc), and their newest readers will very likely experience the pleasurable shivers Fred specifically intended them to feel.

[…] misogyny prevails and women become the victims [..] in The Bed by the Window, James Lamp, and [...] one of the last macabre tales Fred published, Sea Mist.

~Alexis Lykiard. Quoted from his review of Ash-Tree Press' Sea Mist, first published in All Hallows magazine, 06/2005