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Mrs H.D. Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special thrills without piling on the agony. 'I always know', says one of her characters, 'how to distinguish a true ghost story from a faked one. The true ghost story never has any point and the faked one dare not leave it out.'
A collection of 14 short stories with horror and paranormal themes. The stories are: The Death Mask; Parson Clench; The Wind of Dunowe; Nevill Nugent's Legacy; The Crimson Blind; Fingers of a Hand; The Next Heir; Anne's Little Ghost; Over the Wires; A Water Witch; The Lonely Road; A Girl in White; A Perplexing Case; and, Beyond the Pale.
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