The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft. Short summary

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In the town of Kingsport lives the Scary Old Man, ugly and unsociable. The locals were afraid of the old man. Despite the strange rumors, three burglars decided to break into the old man’s house and get hold of his riches.

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In Kingsport, in an old, dilapidated house, lives a Scary Old Man who is feared by everyone in town. The old man has many oddities — he talks to pendulums in bottles, all of which have names. And there are also persistent rumors around town about the enormous riches stored in the dilapidated house, because the old man pays in gold and silver coins in the store.

The robbers Angelo Ricci, Joe Chanek and Manuel Silva decide to sneak into the Scary Old Man’s house and reap his riches. On a dark night, Ricci and Silva broke into the old man’s house while Chanek waited for them in the car.

Soon there were heartbreaking screams coming from the house, and a short time later Chanek saw the old man coming out of the house. The boy could see that his eyes were lit up with a yellow light.

For a long time, the townsfolk were still talking about the three bodies, mutilated beyond recognition, that had been washed ashore by the tide.