"The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" is a free online ghost story in which antiquary Mr. Somerton deciphers a Renaissance cryptogram hidden in stained glass, convinced it reveals the location of a fortune buried by a 16th-century abbot. The clues lead him to a well deep within the ruins of Steinfeld Abbey — and to something that should never have been disturbed. What grips the reader is not the puzzle itself, but the mounting dread as Somerton descends into the dark, reaches into a cavity, and discovers that the Abbot's warning — "I have set a guardian over them" — was no idle boast.

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