The Scarlet Mansion Author:Allan W. Eckert It was the house that a man named Holmes built. Stately, handsome, it sat majestically on Chicago's South Side in the late 19th century. But inside, it was a chamber of horrors-100 macabre rooms containing gas chambers, trapdoors, abattoirs, lime pits, acid vats, dissecting rooms, a crematorium, and aother features to aid its diabolical owner in... more » his specialty.