The Mammoth Book Of Haunted House Stories (Mammoth Books) - Plot & Excerpts
Property: Nineteenth-century town house located in a quiet square adjacent to the mayor’s residence. Ornately and stylishly decorated, the property ensures privacy in the heart of the town. Viewing Date: Autumn, 1917. Agent: Herbert de Hamel (c. 1888–1939) was born in Reading, Berkshire and after several nondescript jobs, turned to writing and became a notable author and dramatist, with several of his plays produced successfully on the London stage. Among his most popular books were The Unnecessary Undoing of Mr. Purgle (1927), The Mills of Hell (1935) and Many Thanks – Ben Hassett (1936) which was reprinted several times. “The House of Dust”, first published in 1934, was attacked as being in bad taste because of its portrayal of a wartime sexual encounter between a German officer and a young female – a girl whose identity provides the chilling climax to the story. I Captain Kurt Von Unserbach was bored. He was bored from the duelling scar on the top of his close-cropped head to the corns on his tightly shod feet.
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