The Thirteenth Guest

Marie Morgan takes her flashlight and key and opens the door of an old, dark and shuttered, overgrown with decay abandoned house. She is amazed to see on a cobweb-covered table, a new telephone, and as she enters the dining-room, where rats are gnawing the decayed remains of a sumptuous feast laid out years ago for thirteen guests, she is also surprised to find that electric lights have been installed. She sits in the thirteenth chair and reconstructs the scene of thirteen years before, when she, as a young girl, sat at the side of her father who died at the table after reading a mysterious will.