At a Winter's Fire
Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph![At a Winter's Fire](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/301/3012200/CHSBZCOP033012200.jpg)
It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose towering snow-flung walls seemed -- as the day sucked inwards to a point secret as a leech's mouth -- to close about me like a monstrous amphitheater of ghosts. . . ." Bernard Edward J. Capes is generally remembered as a writer of eerie fiction, an...