| The Black Abbot | |
| Author: | Edgar Wallace |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Crime |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Release Date: | 1926 |
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The Black Abbot is a crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace which was first published in 1926[1] about the ghost of an abbot haunting the grounds of an old abbey and protecting a lost treasure.
The following year Wallace turned the story into a play The Terror which itself had several film adaptations.
It was adapted in 1963 by the German studio Rialto Film as The Black Abbot as part of a long-running series of Wallace adaptations made by the company.[2]