" One thing the landlord was particular to point out, that no tenant had ever complained about knockings, or doors slamming. As for the smell, he seemed positively indignant about it; but why, I don’t suppose he quite knew himself, except that he probably had some vague feeling that it was an indirect accusation on my part that the drains were not right. "

― William Hope Hodgson , The Collected Fiction, Vol. 2: The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places