Seaton’s Aunt (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: Around 1890 and 1900
- Setting: Gummidge's preparatory boys’ school in rural England, London, and Seaton's country home
- Principal Characters: Withers, Arthur Seaton, Seaton's aunt, Alice Outram
- Genres: Short fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Horror literature
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Fear, Boys, Horror, Demoniac possession
- Locales: England, London, England
The Story
Withers, the story's narrator and central consciousness, is first aware of Seaton as an unpopular schoolfellow at Gummidge's. Seaton has money, but he is unattractive and unskillful at games, and he is often the butt of practical jokes. Nevertheless, he manages to persuade Withers to spend the half-term holiday with him at his aunt's.
When they arrive, Seaton dawdles rather than entering the house directly, acting as if vaguely afraid of something. Finally they approach the house to find his aunt watching them ominously from an upper window as if brooding over...
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