Midnight House (Annotated)

Midnight House is a finely wrought example of Ethel Lina White's late suspense fiction, placing the Gothic inheritance of the sinister dwelling inside the sharper mechanisms of Golden Age crime. Its drama turns on a house charged with nocturnal unease, where domestic space becomes a theatre of secrecy, fear, and possible violence. White's prose is swift, visual, and insinuating: she builds tension...