Defilement

Defilement is the right title!

Having enjoyed The Eve of St Eligius, I made an effort to get hold of the second 'Eldritch collection', Wish Man's Wood. However I was disappointed to find that a male perspective was taken most of the time. Defilement was perfectly horrible in this respect.

Seeing a Ghost?

Any of the odd sightings I've had in my life can be rationalised away as mistakes, tired eyes, imagination and so on. I find this most difficult to do in the case of something I saw in my first decade.

I was around eight years old, or at any rate of an age when I was trusted to bathe myself but not to run the water at the right temperature. After running my bath my mother called me upstairs. I went up the stairs, not bothering to switch on the light since the bathroom light was on. As I neared the top, a shape (it seemed to be two-dimensional) fluttered through the house wall to my right, undulated quickly close to my face and then passed through the bedroom wall on my left. I wasn't particularly frightened; more surprised than anything else. I didn't even mention what I'd seen to my mother.

Above I've made a rough drawing. As you can see whatever it was didn't have much shape. The important thing missing is the fast undulating, wriggling motion it made. My house was a modern one in London of about the same age as me and it was built on farmland, so there's no 'old dark house' element involved.

Lovecraft

I'm not sure why all this fuss is being made about the word ELDRITCH.  Howard Phillips Lovecraft was using it many years ago.