Charles Goddard Paul Dickey 3 hr 32 min read

Warren Jarvis of Kentucky, fleeing a blood feud, falls in with a princess and swears an oath of allegiance that carries him over the sea to a haunted Spanish castle he must clear of its ghost.

Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey's 1915 novel, based on their hit play, is a rousing adventure-horror romance. Vivid, atmospheric, of its era. Read it for a genial period thriller of romance and the supernatural, where a fugitive Kentucky gentleman turns ghost-breaker to win a princess and brave the terrors of an old castle.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 32 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).