Book Description

Certain houses like certain persons manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil.Contents:- The Empty House- A Haunted Island- A Case of Eavesdropping- Keeping His Promise- With Intent to Steal- The Wood of the Dead- Smith: an Episode in a Lodging-House- A Suspicious Gift- The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York- Skeleton Lake: an Episode in Camp.