Short Horror Story Review Arthur Gray The Everlasting Club

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1919 – Spoiler alerts. A short story by a writer also known as Ingulphus, a pseudonym he often adopted. The Everlasting Club is a Cambridge University variation on the infamous Hellfire Club. It has only seven members who have signed a declaration pledge to be members not just for life but forever, even after death. The numbers drop when the men die off one by one until only one man remains alive. He turns up at their hired university meeting room, and his screams of terror lead the staff to run to the locked room and burst in. They find him alone and dead, but the membership book is still signed by all seven members of the club. The room has been sealed up with orders to never open it again, and the legend is shared with a group of University professors by the narrator. Creepy, if a little predictable but very atmospheric. Arthur Chappell