Ruined in the stock market crash of 1929, Selden Seaforth is on the verge of homelessness and starvation when he gets a lucky break: an old school friend, Ormond Ormes, hires him to catalogue the collection of rare books in the library at the mansion of Ormesby.

The mansion has a reputation for being haunted by ghosts, but Seaforth quickly finds out that ghosts are the least of his worries: the house is also inhabited by a bizarre family of madwomen, not to mention possibly vampires, werewolves, and the undead....

Easily one of the strangest horror novels ever published, J.U. Nicolson's Fingers of Fear (1937) is also notable for its inclusion on Karl Edward Wagner's list of the top thirteen supernatural horror novels of all time. This unabridged reprint features the original rare dust jacket art.