A nightmarish tale of a boarder who finds his room inexplicably changed and taken over by bacchantean strangers appearing from nowhere. Strange, disorienting, and quite good.

Man living in a strange apartment building with lots of winding passages goes out for a smoke, and from there it gets weird! O'Brien, who died during the Civil War at age 34, had a pretty tremendous imagination, as demonstrated by this and a few of his other stories I have read. Don't miss this short gem. ( )