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Lädt ... Fingers of Fear (1937)von J.U. Nicolson
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I really enjoyed this haunted-house/insanity-in-the-family shocker. Narrator Selden Seaverns is down on his luck in the depths of the Depression (1933) when a college acquaintance, Ormond Ormes, asks him to ghost-write a history of the Elizabethan influence on colonial American literature at Ormond's family home, Ormesby, in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, so Ormond can get a $100,000 inheritance (very roughly $2 million in 2019). Selden doesn't get very much done before he discovers that Ormesby is haunted and the Ormes family members are keeping secrets. But Selden soon finds himself so enmeshed in the family's problems that leaving will be very difficult. The writing is really over the top, of the had-I-but-known type. Recommended for those who like good old-fashioned melodrama, sensation, and horror. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Published by Nodens Books. This is a dark tale of the mystery and horror that gathered over the vast pile of gables that was Ormesby, the ancestral home of the Ormes family which, lost in one of the wildest and most isolated reaches of the Berkshires, was the topic of whispered and fearful comment by the natives for miles around. Recluses in the great mansion, guarded by a pack of ferocious dogs, the family jealously nursed its secret. Ormond Ormes, last of a long line of New England merchant princes, sometimes ventured into the world to make a slight effort to straighten out the confusion of his affairs. But his beautiful sister, Gray, was at home with the ghosts, even jested about them with a kind of macabre humor, and never stirred from the dusty passages, the ranks of little used chambers, and the wild grounds of Ormesby.There were other Ormes women there, silent creatures living in their memories, cowering in terror under the fate that threatened the family. Into this atmosphere young Seaverns was plunged when, jobless and down to his last cent, he accepted an offer from Ormond Ormes to complete a history of Early American literature for which Ormond's grandfather had gathered the enormous library that now reposed under thick layers of dust at Ormesby. But the history was never written, for Seaverns had few moments of peace once he crossed the threshold of the ill-fated house. Good horror stories are among the great rarities of the publishing world. We are fortunate in having this thrilling narrative unfolded by J.U. Nicolson, whose rich imagination has produced such volumes of poetry as "The King of the Black Isles" and "Sonnets of a Minnesinger," and whose already well developed ability to spin a tale was sharpened during the long years he spent on his monumental modern English version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It is with good reason, then, that we expect Fingers of Fear to take its place beside such great horror stories as Dracula and The Turn of the Screw. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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