Richard Marsh 3 hr 27 min read

Two lone young women take cheap lodgings in a house with a hidden secret, and in the dead of night, the ghost of Tom Ossington returns, seeking the fortune concealed within its walls.

Richard Marsh's 1898 novel, by the author of The Beetle, is an atmospheric ghost-mystery. Eerie, gripping, of its era. Read it for a suspenseful late-Victorian haunting from a master of the sensational supernatural, a hidden treasure, a restless spirit, and mounting danger, in a well-turned tale of ghostly mystery and menace from the great age of the English weird novel.

In its time

Published in 1898, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Harold Piffard