AustLit

A British soldier sends his family to a vacant house near Calcutta to escape the cholera , but has to bring them back when a ghostly woman appears. A subsequent night spent there with a fellow officer brings an even more horrific encounter with the woman. Well written. (PB)

'A Haunt of Jinkarras deals with the discovery of a primordial race that dwells entirely underground.' 

Source: L.W. Currey, Inc. https://www.lwcurrey.com/pages/books/167311/ernest-favenc/the-last-of-six-tales-of-the-austral-tropics 

Interested to test for himself the effects of Cannibis Indica on the creative imagination, the narrator persuades a pharmacist friend to supply him with a small quantity of the drug and monitor its effects, and to also act as the narrator's amanuensis while he is under its influence. The narrator offers readers the story he imagined, and includes explanatory notes about the objects that inspired him.

Horror tale with a Spanish flavour. The narrator reveals his increasing obsession with decapitation and whether or not will remains in the mind after severence. This leads to the murder of his closest friend, a man of great mind and will power. Well-paced and structured, slight melodrama in the increasing sense of obsession. (PB)