Written by Bram Stoker and published in 1914, "The Judge's House" tells of Malcolm Malcolmson, a mathematics student who rents an isolated, long-abandoned house in a small English town to study undisturbed. The house, known locally as the Judge's House for its associations with a merciless historical judge, harbors disturbing secrets that challenge Malcolmson's rational skepticism. Readers should expect a slow-building atmosphere of dread, the collision between scientific reasoning and supernatural terror, and a protagonist whose isolation becomes increasingly sinister.