The Ghoul

A strange inheritance entices a young woman and her friend to an isolated mansion, where an uncanny atmosphere and a looming menace quickly threaten their lives and sanity.This is a book that should hold you enthralled, gentle reader, and cause creepy chills to run up and down your spine. Here is sudden death before your eyes, the death of a man who says he cannot die, and who walks again before your eyes to prove that fact and to bring death to others. Here is a house whose occupants disappear one by one in a fashion most uncanny. Madness reigns and one wonders, as an onlooker, if there is a single atom of sanity in the complex situation. . . . This is meat and drink for your armchair criminologist. It is stuff to tax his wits to the utmost and yet the author plays unusually fair. The answer is constantly before your eyes if you can see it. . . . It is a clever and ingenious plot, however, and the author shows himself to be an able craftsman in the art of misdirection. . . . Since I rarely read a book all through at one time, to say that I did not lay it down from the moment I opened it until I came to the end, is the highest praise I can give as to its gruesome fascination. (Donal F. MacPhee, 1929 review) The Ghoul was first published in 1929.