Strange Aeons The Thing on the Doorstep

Precociously talented poet and scholar Edward Derby Erick Robertson begins exhibiting violent mood swings and changes in behaviour and personality not long after his marriage When he confides in his friend and graduate advisor Professor Dan Upton JD Lloyd that his wife Asenath Waite Angela Gillois using him for her own purposes and that her late father Ephraim Waite may not be dead Upton is unsure of what his friend means However when Derby is found wandering in a deranged state in rural Maine he tells Upton an incredible story of his wifes powers her intentions and who she really is and begs him for his help