“In a creepy-crawly old house on Frobble Street, in the middle of a tiny town called Quigly, behind a tall wall covered with sprawling brambles and locked in by an iron gate with a sight that said ‘Keep Out_This means You!’ lived Thurlo Darby and his Something,”
“The paper had indeed sold lots of copies, and the TV news repeated the story. Everywhere, people in town were buzzing about Thurlo Darby’s Hoax and Bingham Frew’s Investigation.”
“Thurlo Darby has something in his house. He likes to tell everyone he has something in his house. It opens doors, makes thumping noises, closes windows, ...”