The Uninvited A Story of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances.
Dorothy MacArdle
Hardcover
(Reginald Saunders, March 15, 1942)
The haunting novel upon which the play and Lewis Allen's feature film debut (starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, and Donald Crisp) were based. Seeking to escape the demands of London, Pam Fitzgerald and her brother, Roddy, an aspiring playwright, discover a charming house in the west of England, overlooking the Irish Sea. The house, Cliff End, has long been empty, and they are able to purchase it at a suspiciously low price from crusty Commander Brooke, the village curmudgeon. The reason is soon apparent: the house has an unsavory reputation. Fifteen years earlier a murder may or may not have occurred by the gnarled tree that can be viewed by the parlor window. Slowly the Fitzgeralds begin to sense the evil spirit that still inhabits the house, announcing its presence with a sudden, bone-chilling cold. Originally published as "Uneasy Freehold".