Charles Harkness, a timid American collector touring Cornwall, accepts an invitation to the seaside house of Mr. Crispin, a red-haired, softly spoken man with a philosophy that power comes from inflicting pain. Inside he finds Crispin’s terrified son and daughter-in-law, and must find courage he never knew he had to save them.
Walpole’s self-described romantic macabre of 1925, a taut and genuinely unsettling Gothic thriller. Download the free EPUB.