"The Diary of Alonzo Typer" by H. P. Lovecraft, for William Lumley

These Dutch names always confound me, so I probably got them wrong. Sleght in particular. Oh well.

While the atmosphere is adequately developed in this story, there are many missed opportunities to make it even creepier or more sinister. It was already kind of a long-ish story, for a short story, so I guess that wasn't done in order to keep the word count manageable? Although it is not like Lovecraft was particularly shy about writing stories much longer than this, so who knows.

6 inches = 15.25 cm
3.5 inches = 8.9 cm

Cochin-China is an old European name for Vietnam.

frore = frosty or frozen

The picture used is "OLD FARM HOUSE" by shabear1000, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

The follow along: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dat.aspx