villainous-tangled

Updated: June 23, 2025

All day long he lay on his bed in the small spare room Robert had given him and stared up at the white ceiling. There was a crack, running zig-zag from the window to the door, which reminded him, so he said, of a river in Angola, a beastly slimy thing trailing through mosquito-infested swamps and villainous-tangled jungles.

I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie - The Dark House