Kerfol

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.‪ Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
In "Kerfol" a man is interested in buying a house in France. Friends tell him about an ancient estate, Kerfol, so he sets off to look at the place. When he gets there, he finds the place empty, not even the caretaker there to greet him. He decides to do some trespassing. While he's looking around, dogs start showing up and follow him. They aren't behaving like normal dogs and it freaks him out...