Lucy is Vi's best friend. It's too bad that Lucy is such a bad influence on her....

"'You can't go on this way.' Lucy kept her voice down low, because she knew the nurse had her room down just the hall from mine, and I wasn't supposed to see any visitors."

Weird Tales (January 1952)
The Living Demons (1967)
Out of the Mouths of Graves (1978)
Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of (1979)
Complete Stories of Robert Bloch -- V 1: Final Reckonings (1990)

Adapted for the film Asylum (Amicus, 1972).