One day during the summer of 2012, Northampton architect Silas Tadwick found himself caught up in an horrific series of events during a chance visit to the ancient and secluded Northamptonshire village of Lychwood. He recorded a handwritten description of these events in a little notebook, or enchiridion, which was later found amongst his papers. His journal describes the ancient and unspeakable evil he encounters, an evil which permeates the whole village but which is centred at "that eerie and sequestered ruin, Lychwood Hall".Tadwick visits the village quite by chance, whilst out driving, at a loose end, looking for some charming part of the local countryside to explore. He has never even heard of Lychwood before, and on first arriving is amazed that such a place could still exist. Its timber framed buildings with their overhanging upper stories make him feel as if he has stepped back in time several centuries. And as he first starts to explore the seemingly deserted village, he becomes strangely beguiled by the place. But then a series of unpleasant and unnerving encounters with the local residents leave him feeling increasingly alarmed, and as he learns more and more about the secret history of Lychwood Hall, and of its owners, the corrupt and perverted Temple family, he begins to bitterly regret his ill advised curiosity for the place. Yet it is not until Tadwick steps foot in Lychwood Hall itself, with that "gloaming eldritch copse" behind it and those "ancient sandstone caves" beyond, that the full horror of his circumstances is revealed to him, as he encounters the "deformed, eyeless creature" that lurks therein, "that twisted mouldering demon with its curling fingernails and annelidan tongue".Very much rooted within the macabre tradition of H.P. Lovecraft, The Lychwood Horror is a tale of one man's descent into a hell of his own making. Illustrated with medieval woodcuts such as Hans Holbein's Dance of Death, this edition is richly unsettling in every detai