SOURCE: "The House of Nightmare" by Edward Lucas White (Smith's Magazine, September 1906)

DESCRIPTION: "There was a Thing in the room; not a sow, nor any other namable creature, but a Thing. It was as big as an elephant, filled the room to the ceiling, was shaped like a wild boar, seated on its haunches, with its forelegs braced stiffly in front of it. It had a hot, slobbering, red mouth, full of big tusks, and its jaws worked hungrily. It shuffled and hunched itself forward, inch by inch, till its vast forelegs straddled the bed." ("The House of Nightmare" by Edward Lucas White)

NOTES: The narrator of the story sleeps in a haunted house one night and dreams of a sow the size of a dray-horse then wakes. When he goes back to sleep the dream changes to an even bigger pig-thing. These visions are only dreams but suggest some cosmic terror outside the earthly realm.

HISTORY: This story may have inspired William Hope Hodgson who liked pig-like demons in his House on the Borderlands (1908) and "The Hog" (1947).

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