The Pattern is a novelette written by Ramsey Campbell. It was first published in the 1976 anthology Superhorror, edited by Campbell. It was reprinted in the 1980 collection The Far Reaches of Fear and the 1982 collection Dark Companions. It was also reprinted in various other anthologies.
Synopsis[]
A young couple move into a rustic cottage which proves to have a history of bad luck and strange screams, which turn out to be manifestations of a tragedy from another time.