, Jonathan A. , Simon O. , Deliverance W. , Joseph C. , Susan P. , Mehitable C. , and Deborah B. ” Ward’s face, too, troubled him horribly, till at length he suddenly discovered why he was horrified. Above the young man’s right eye was something which he had never previously noticed⁠—a small scar or pit precisely like that in the crumbled painting of old Joseph Curwen, and perhaps attesting some hideous ritualistic inoculation to which both had submitted at a certain stage of their occult careers.