“From the first, Professor Freeman was reluctant to let his young sister-in-law, Caroline, accept the post of games mistress at the Abbey School.”
He’s quite right to be reluctant; it is rumoured that the previous games mistress died only three weeks into her post, literally frightened to death. The staff are odd and eccentric, the Headmistress and Matron hold séances, and an atmosphere of uneasiness and dread builds up relentlessly. “The less one talks about anything here, the safer one is…”
A chilling thriller from the author of The Wheel Spins, later made into the film The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock.
Originally published in 1937.
The cover shows a detail from the original dustwrapper.