E. F. Benson ~6 hr read

The second half of a dark romance about a family whose fortunes rest on an ancestor's bargain with Satan himself.

E. F. Benson's 1925 novel completes the story of the Stanier family and the diabolical pact struck by the first Earl of Yardley, in the lush, sinister Gothic vein of the master ghost-story writer. Atmospheric supernatural melodrama. Read it for the conclusion of Benson's Faustian dynasty saga, thick with old evil and family doom.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).