Grammar correction: 'The house was covered in its...'

[Tom]

Hi

Could you please go through the following and correct the grammatical and punctuation mistakes? Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!

'The house was covered in its usual eerie dark, casting fear from every brick.For over hundred years, this house, which had now become a paradigm of horror among the people living nearby, stood all on itself. The heavy and rusty padlock on the iron gate which had now become as unsightly as the house itself silently proclaimed that it had been untouched for a long, long time. But these walls and gates were not deprived of life altogether. Large clutters of spiders moved about them 'freely' in their cobs.'

Tom

[Tom]

Did no-one like my story???

Tom

[Yankee]

Patience, patience, Tom.
I think you've done an excellent job! I got goose bumps.

I added a couple of commas (blue) in the quote and made comments about the parts highlighted in red after the quote.

Maybe someone else will have some additional or better ideas.

[prezbucky]

Tom wrote:
'The house was covered in its usual eerie dark, casting fear from every brick. For over hundred years, this house, which had now become a paradigm of horror among the people living nearby, stood all on itself. The heavy and rusty padlock on the iron gate, which had now become as unsightly as the house itself, silently proclaimed that it had been untouched for a long, long time. But these walls and gates were not deprived of life altogether. Large clutters of spiders moved about them 'freely' in their cobs.'

In addition to what Amy mentioned:

Line 1: For over one hundred years... (or "100")

This is really nit-picky, but since the second-to-last sentence sets up the last sentence, I would write it like this:

"But these walls and gates were not deprived of life altogether: large clutters of spiders moved about them freely in their cobs."

you could also replace the colon with "in that" or "as":

"....deprived of life altogether as large clutters of spiders moved about them freely in their cobs."

I'm going to assume that "cobs" signifies "cob webs/cobwebs".

Good job!
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