The Missing Guest is a 1938 American mystery-comedy film directed by John Rawlins.

A newspaper reporter is sent by his editor to spend a night in a country house where a notorious murder had been committed exactly twenty years before.

[4] Music in The Missing Guest is recycled from previous films including Werewolf of London and Dracula's Daughter.

"[1][4] The New York World-American stated that "[I]f you know your mystery stories at all, you must know by now how unfunny a couple of presumably comic detectives can be when they get mixed up with spooks, sliding panels, and clutching hands" and found that the film "is a feeble and fumbling attempt at being eerie and funny"[1] Kate Cameron of The New York Daily News said that the comedy in the film was "such feeble fooling that it entirely destroys its purpose and merely serves to shatter whatever illusion the murder and the mystery might otherwise hold for the audience.

"[1] In their book on Universal Horror films, the authors stated that "mile-a-minute wisecracks and inane humor stand in for atmosphere and chills" declaring the film to be a "dismal mystery-comedy that serves up none of either."