THE ULTIMATE TERROR Lovely Edna Stewart was far from her ancestral home when she wed handsome and commanding Boston banker William Smith - but she had not escaped the evil that shadowed the Stewart clan. All too soon her happiness dissolved in horror as she viewed her husband’s mangled corpse. Stripped of love and property, alone and defenseless, she was forced to come to the grim mansion of Cliffhurst as companion to a blind old lady who saw will too clearly things not of this world. In this domain of deviltry, one person only offered Edna sanctuary from the satanic circle closing in around her. His name was Thomas Janney, master of Cliffhurst, his face masked in black silk, his past shrouded in deepest secrecy, his passion a dark fire consuming anyone it touched....