Spoilers!
The legend was that the window at the top of the tower was most strictly kept closed because of young Sir Mark de Nort’s late grandfather had made it so. And it seems this is because of some curse connected with the latter’s behaviour or wishes. Sir Mark lives with a cousin, his heir, Roland, two years older than him, and their hobbies and other manners of life are amenable together, and it is touching when one of them holds the other’s hand at a time of distress. Until manly pride makes Mark open that window, opens that casement to what evil is now uncloseted as a foreign rocky terrain outside with an imputed temptation of riches, but only if one can but reach for them out there (an effective damnable vista that will likely haunt me). Effectively, Mark later seems tantamount to abandon the emerging wreck of his amenable cousin companion who has been infiltrated with false optimism by what lay beyond the window, with Mark indeed seemingly further abandoning him by acquiring a wife after Roland’s foolhardy escapade out there via a rope, as well as after Mark’s beloved dog had been slaughtered as part of the same dire process. Roland soon becomes mentally and physically hollowed out after climbing down there and today he is just a sad appendage in the house, although dutifully cared for by Mark. This affected me a lot. This and the ‘Tower of Fear’.
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My other reviews of unconnected horror stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/separate-horror-stories-from-many-years-ago/
A book by Arthur C. Benson below that I may review later in the comment stream below…
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