After the success with two previous books about the supernatural, Moon Eyes and Catch as Catch Can, there is evidence again in [Billy Buck] that [Josephine Poole] is able to evoke a sense of unease through the quality of the writing. But for this reviewer there was evoked a second sense of unease. The story gives a picture of a village community best by the powers of darkness, and perhaps it reveals a simple prejudice to suggest that the whole import of the novel might be dismissed bluntly as claptrap. But young afficionados of the supernatural novel may be more willing to suspend such disbelief when they become immersed in some of the more gripping passages which Miss Poole achieves with her skilful writing.