The Terrible Old Man

Otis Jiry narrates this story by H.P. Lovecraft (R.I.P.), about three robbers that take little heed of the locals’ cautionary whisperings about a strange elderly man “so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name,” and disregard them completely when they hear that the Old Man possesses a treasure. They act immediately on their avarice according to their natures, and go to the Old Man’s house to commit robbery. Two of the men go inside to “interview” the Old Man about the treasure and its hiding place while the third waits outside in their car. The driver waits impatiently for a long while, startled at one point by an outburst of horrific screaming from the house.