Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

In the small Gloucestershire town of Wotton-under-Edge, at the bottom of a lane called Potters Pond, there is a building that looks like it is being held up by habit. It leans. The timbers are black and warped and no two windows agree with each other. The roof sags along its ridge like an old horse. It was built in 1145, which makes it one of the oldest standing houses in England, and it has been a priest's house, an inn, a pub, and finally the private home of a man named John Humphries, who bought it in 1968 and lived in it, alone, for forty-nine years, until he died in 2017 at the age of eighty-five. He had, by his own frequently repeated account, an extremely difficult first night. He said that something took hold of him in the dark and dragged him bodily across the room. He said that after that he knew what he had bought. And for the next half-century he stayed, in a house he insisted was full of things he could not name, and he let people in to see for themselves — paranorm...