Unholy Depths (Nezu Press Classics)

Verona Wood, a twenty-four-year-old London girl who works in an office to make ends meet, responds to a newspaper advertisement offering holiday accommodation to 'an unmarried lady' and goes to spend her three-week vacation with Miss Rose Bullivant at 'The Nest' in Wensley, Kent. While out walking in the neighbouring countryside, she comes across 'Virginia', the house built by Colonel Belasco, a plantation owner from Virginia who moved to England with his wife in 1866, about a year after the American Civil War ended, bringing with him three former slaves. After encountering the spirit of Quentin Belasco, the colonel's son, who committed suicide at the property fifty years earlier, Verona makes up her mind to live in the long-empty house. But there is something terribly wrong with 'Virginia', and Verona soon finds herself isolated and afraid in her new home, alone save for an 'obsessed' housekeeper, and at the mercy of the malevolent force that haunts the very land the Belasco house sits on.

First published in 1926, this new edition of Unholy Depths includes a 14-page biographical essay by Gina R. Collia: 'Gertrude Dunn: Creating a Strong Belief in the Incredible'.