Whilst staying at a country inn, a solicitor named Dexter meets Aylmer Vance, a consulting expert in all things supernatural. The two men strike up an instant friendship, and Vance regales Dexter with haunting tales of his ghostly encounters - some beguiling, some tragic and some truly terrifying...
Originally published in The Weekly Tale Teller in 1914, these eight stories represent the complete casebook of Alice and Claude Askew's celebrated occult detective.