This is a collection of eight ghost stories, written by the remarkably
prolific husband and wife team of
Claude and Alice Askew, centering on
Aylmer Vance, an investigator of the supernatural. Dexter, the narrator,
meets Vance during a fishing holiday and Vance tells him three ghost
stories on successive nights, each story involving Vance more closely in
the action. The fourth story brings Dexter himself into the action, and
reveals him to have unsuspected clairvoyant powers. The remaining
stories feature Vance and Dexter as a sort of Holmes-and-Watson team
investigating incidents not all of which prove to have supernatural
causes.
The final story, “The Fear” is very effective, describing a house in
which a general feeling of extreme fear grips the inhabitants at various
times and locations; the emotion of fear is effectively evoked and an
interesting tale is constructed as Vance and Dexter work to assign the
fear “a local habitation and a name”.
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781329376342
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