"The Little People" by John Christopher

The Saturday Review has described John Christopher as the discoverer of "a new approach to the art of inducing terror by inventing characters who are human and engaging."

His new novel is perhaps the most unusual he has written so far. It concerns an engaged couple, British, who become the owners of a castle in Ireland and turn it into a hotel. They find their love for one another disturbed—nearly shattered—by the guests they have taken in and in whose lives they become entangled. But more disturbing, more shattering, are the haunting suggestions of an intrinsic evil in the castle, of a presence that is hostile and mysterious.