The Tractate Middoth Summary

A man named John Eldred comes to a library looking for a certain book called the Tractate Middoth. A librarian named Mr. Garrett goes to find it for him but it is not on the shelf. Garrett says he sees a man dressed like a parson with the book earlier. After Eldred leaves, Garrett goes to look again and the book is there. When Eldred comes in again, Garrett goes to find the book, but does not return. They find out that he has fallen ill. Garrett later tells a friend he saw the parson again, but when he turns around, his eyes are sunken in and covered with cobwebs. Garrett goes away to recuperate and stays at a lodging house. He meets a woman named Mary Simpson there. Mary tells him about her uncle who used to go...