John Meade Falkner
Fiction
Short Stories
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Introduction
This book is a short novel about an object being possessed of ghosts and evil, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir, becomes increasingly secretive as well as obsessed by a particular piece of music, which seems to have the power to call up the ghost of its previous owner.