<P> The story was also made into the theatrical film The Man Who Haunted Himself in 1970 starring Roger Moore . It was director Basil Dearden's last film, as (coincidentally) he died soon afterwards in a car accident . </P> <P> Anthony Boucher commented on the novel as "a lightly amusing tale of suspense and terror and, read as fantasy, an attractive book"; Boucher, however, also quoted another reviewer who found that, reading the novel as a genre mystery, it was "an extraordinarily irritating piece of cleverness ." </P>

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