The Dark Lane — W.E.D. Ross

Real-estate agent Jane Wright has waited years for her handsome neighbor, Allan Needham, to propose to her. Just when the attractive lawyer is about to pop the question, Betty Smith, a beautiful widow, buys a nearby mansion from Jane and starts to lure Allan away.

Worse yet, after Betty moves into Dark Lane with her strange, sullen son, John, blood-chilling things happen. A stray black cat is cruelly killed. A suspicious mishap befalls a harmless old eccentric. And a terrifying phantom haunts the halls of Dark Lane.

But where do the sinister happenings really originate--in the dark soul of an evil house, or in the dark lane of an unbalanced mind?