Echo of a Curse

A beastly man of possible supernatural lineage, Vincent's unnatural bloodlust is aggravated by his experiences in the first World War and he finds it impossible to fit into his domestic situation when he returns home. Fearful that his ghoulish appetites are the expression of a family curse, he exchanges his son at birth for the child of another woman in the hope that it will terminate his blood line. However, years later a stranger takes up residence in their town, arousing suspicions that he is the long lost son come back for revenge. Reprint of a novel first published in England in 1939.