nondescript little house; a single story house nestled between two new apartment buildings; a dead tree in the yard76
unpainted door; house smelled of incense that didn't cover the sour, charnel-house smell76
partially furnished front room; narrow and uneven stairs to the basement76
odor of dead things and dynamite; that had been used to blast the basement into the granite that underlay the hillside76
stairs ended in a small room with a floor that was polished and well laid, a light-colored wood ringed by a pattern of darker76
continue through a doorway to a small entryway that dropped down a single stair and then opened to a cavernous room76
held a big chair; room only had a single candle lighting it76