

Gilman theorizes that the structure can enable travel from one plane or dimension to another. The dimensions of Gilman's attic room are unusual and seem to conform to a kind of unearthly geometry. Gilman discovers that, for the better part of two centuries, many of the attic's occupants have died prematurely. The house once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. The first part of the story is an account of the house's history. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House," a house in Arkham that is rumored to be cursed. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle of horror fiction.

Dreams in the Witch House is a short story by H.
