Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)***A London bachelor who has come into a little money buys a house in Hertford Park. He soon discovers that an air of mystery hangs about the place, and that the other houses In the street, with the exception of No. 19, are empty. Strange sounds and odors, and stranger emanations of an undefinable nature, assail him from this garden. He finds the house is occupied by a young girl and her morose uncle. He, of course, falls in love with the young gir; but her uncle, it turns out is a necromancer and the terrorized niece must be rescued. The subject, baldly stated, may seem rather puerile. As a matter of fact, Edgar Jepson has surrounded the proceedings of the necromancer and his group of adepts with a sense of mystery which is likely to stir a creeping of the flesh on most readers. The first coming of the terror in the Invisible beast is thoroughly effective, and the rites in the garden about the statue of Pan are veiled with just the right amount of ambiguity, leaving the reader in doubt whether the effect on the performers is the work of hypnotic suggestion or of some real emanation from the abyss.