Two books which might fit into the family tree are Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger (the subplot), and Love On a Branch Line, though that one's over at the benign Ealing-comedy end of the trope.
You know, I had completely managed to forget there is an attempt at demon-summoning in Sweet Danger (1933). There's witchcraft and the tale of a village monster in Look to the Lady (1931), too. I don't think I know Love on a Branch Line at all.
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You know, I had completely managed to forget there is an attempt at demon-summoning in Sweet Danger (1933). There's witchcraft and the tale of a village monster in Look to the Lady (1931), too. I don't think I know Love on a Branch Line at all.