Whispers of the Devil
“They say Mr. Gregory wasn’t the child’s father, that the father was some kind of demon, and Mrs. Gregory begged him to kill the baby, to take it out to the swamp and drown him. I don’t know if that’s actually what happened, but there was no funeral for that child. No christening neither. Nobody saw him, not even Ms. Penny.”
I find it hard to swallow.
He continues. “Afterward, Mr. Gregory was found dead in the cigar room upstairs, and Mrs. Gregory had her psychotic break. Poor Ms. Penny was only sixteen when her mother died, and she left school to come here. She’s been alone ever since. Never married, never went back into town.”
“And you said this house isn’t haunted,” I choke out. “How many