Certain houses like certain persons manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil.

Contents:
- The Empty House
- A Haunted Island
- A Case of Eavesdropping
- Keeping His Promise
- With Intent to Steal
- The Wood of the Dead
- Smith: an Episode in a Lodging-House
- A Suspicious Gift
- The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York
- Skeleton Lake: an Episode in Camp.