Gothic horror narrator: Colton

Gothic horror narrator, ornate, dreadful, and elegant

Prompt: A refined, sinister male Victorian-gothic-horror-narrator voice with candlelit dread and eloquent menace. His cultured baritone narrates supernatural terror with period elegance, treating horror as a matter of exquisite, mounting refinement. There's ornate menace and cold-fingered dread in his tone. The voice of the Victorian horror. The letter arrived on a Tuesday. By Friday, three men were dead, and I understood we had invited something in.

Script: I have hesitated a great while before setting these events to paper, not from any doubt of their truth; I would to God I could doubt it. But from a fear that the mere recounting might, in some manner I cannot name, invite the thing back.