This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1932 and we
are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The
Terror' is a detective novel about a lonely house whose corridors echo
with the sound of the strange notes of a church organ. Richard Horatio
Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early
education at St. Peter's School and the Board School, but after a
frenetic teens involving a rash engagement and frequently changing
employment circumstances, Wallace went into the military. He served in
the Royal West Kent Regiment in England and then as part of the Medical
Staff Corps stationed in South Africa. Whilst in the Balkans covering
the Russo-Japanese War, Wallace found the inspiration for The Four Just
Men, published in 1905. Over the rest of his life, Wallace produced some
173 books and wrote 17 plays. These were largely adventure narratives
with elements of crime or mystery, and usually combined a bombastic
sensationalism with hammy violence.