"An extremely interesting novelist, and a genuinely original one." - J. B. Priestley "One of the most interesting and one of the most important novelists now writing in England." - Hugh Walpole "At his best, he writes as well as any living man." - L.A.G. Strong One dark, foggy night, the eminent novelist Ivor Trent is on his way to a flat in a sordid London lodging house where he plans to begin work on his newest book, undisturbed by his friends, who all believe him to have gone abroad. On his way there, he glimpses a figure in the fog and is struck with terror when he realizes...
"An extremely interesting novelist, and a genuinely original one." - J. B. Priestley "One of the most interesting and one of the most important n...
"Mr. Parry brings it off brilliantly. It starts like a comedy, ends like a tragedy and runs like a nightmare from beginning to end." - New York Times
"One of the few first-rate horror tales since The Hound of the Baskervilles was a pup." - Newsweek
"Unconventional, witty, and well told, this strange and modern ghost story will appeal to those who like their literature on the different side." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"One is carried along on a wave of admiring belief and enchantment to the last page . . . a fine piece of writing in a genre...
"Mr. Parry brings it off brilliantly. It starts like a comedy, ends like a tragedy and runs like a nightmare from beginning to end." - New York Tim...
