I find Eric's writing to be melodramatic & heavy handed.  this one was creepy - but not in a ghostly way.  a strange man stays over night with a woman and her young daughter & behaves inappropriately towards both.  maybe this was ok in the 1970s, but I listened to this story the same week that police discovered that a cleveland man held three young women captive for 10 years - the guy in this story just seemed predatory to me.