The Haunting Gameplay

The uncomfortable drive to Boston from Providence takes just over three hours and you are all eager to stretch your legs by the end of the trip. Opting to go straight to the house, Larry pulls up at the Old Corbitt Place.

The brick building is overshadowed by taller newer office buildings on either side. The house fronts the street. In the rear are overgrown plantings and a half-collapsed arbor. Access to the rear exists either side of the residence.

Studying the house, the observer is impressed by the way the house seems to withdraw into the shadows cast by the flanking buildings and how the blank curtained windows hide all understanding of what lies within.

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Larry unlocks to door and swings it open to a corridor lined with an ugly patterned carpet. To the right a pair of solid oak wooden doors and a single door on the left. There's a very musty smell in the air. A number of deadbolts seem to have been added to the front door fairly recently.

The Old Corbitt Place

Opening wide the double doors, Larry reveals a large living room containing conventional furnishings, a radio, couch, stuffed chairs and shelves laden with gewgaws. You cannot help but noticed the unusual quantities of crosses, images of the Virgin and other Cathelic artefacts. The house is quiet though the occaisional floorboard creaks as you enter.

A window overlooks the front of the property and two smaller ones to the side, all appear to have been nailed shut from the inside. An opening in east wall leads to another room further in the house.

Stepping through the archway, Larry finds a dining room, complete with long mahogany table, a built in sideboard and seven chairs. Three places are set and unused. Scraps of rice soup rot in a tureen, the smell of rotting food assaults the nostrils.

Suddenly from above are three solid thumps.