The Revealing Pattern

"The Revealing Pattern" by Alvin Heiner is a story that looks at old beliefs, history, and how people act, possibly set in the 1950s. It takes place in a library and tells about Professor Jonathan Waits, who wants to prove that the Reamer mansion, a place known for bad luck and violence, is not actually cursed. The professor talks with Miss Hopstead, a librarian, trying to find out why the mansion has been empty for years. They discover the mansion has seen many terrible events, like murders and strange deaths. Waits thinks understanding the past can end the fear around the house. But when Waits dies in an accident at the mansion, his friend Nicholas Worthy decides to keep working on the project. This event questions destiny, knowledge, and what happens when we dig into scary stories from the past, proposing that danger and sadness are related to what people do and where they do it.