Derby confides in Upton, telling him strange stories about Asenath. Occasionally he is driven back by a chauffeur or mechanic while he huddles in the back seat of the car. Sometimes he drives off by himself, even though he has never been taught to drive. Despite his qualms Derby moves into the old Crowninshield House, with three servants from Innsmouth.Ī few years later, people start to notice odd changes in Derby's abilities. Edward and Asenath soon wed after bonding over their love of the occult. Upton then tells of Asenath Waite, a female classmate of Derby's at Miskatonic University. Her death had sent him into a depression from which he took a long time to recover. Derby's parents had always doted on him and he had a particular reliance on them, especially his mother. Whenever Derby visited he always used the same knocking pattern of three strokes, a pause, and then two additional strokes on the knocker Upton had always been able to identify Derby this way. The two would discuss dark mythology in their spare time. Derby had been interested in the occult even as a very young boy, which led to him befriending Upton. He begins by describing Derby's life and career. But my will is not weak and I shall not let it be undermined by the terrors I know are seething around it." - Daniel Upton, "The Thing on the Doorstep"ĭaniel Upton, the story's narrator, explains that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer.
I shall go mad if he is not, for I may be the next. "He must be cremated-he who was not Edward Derby when I shot him. The story ends with the arrival of a hunched figure on the protagonist's doorstep
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