"Grotesquerie" is a short story by the little-known author, Harold Lawlor. First appearing in Weird Tales in its November 1950 edition, the story was described by the magazine as follows: “The inmates of the house scuttled away in the purposely kept dimly lighted halls; the latest comer was never seen about at all.”

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