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Bezig met laden... Haunted and the Haunters (1859)door Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a very effective short ghost story about a haunted house in the middle of London, the typical place where no tenant has served out their term and all quitted after a day or two. The author builds up an atmosphere of thick horror and oppression very well within a few pages - "I felt as if some strange and ghastly exhalation were rising up from the chinks of that rugged floor, and filling the atmosphere with a venomous influence hostile to human life". The narrator is determined to find the true rational explanation for the hauntings as he refuses to believe in the supernatural and, in the end, he does identify the source, but it is based on a Medieval monkish curse. A gripping piece of writing. ( ) El narrador de esta desasosegante fábula de fantasmas, desoyendo los consejos de sus allegados, decide pasar una noche, junto con su criado y su perro, en una casa encantada situada en Londres, de la que todos los demás huyen despavoridos. Allí tal y como él esperaba, asiste a una serie de apariciones espeluznantes y descubre, a través de unas cartas, que la casa, muchos años atrás, fue el escenario de unos horribles crímenes. El secreto de todo parece encerrarse en una habitación vacía. Conectada a esta, la voluntad de un ser inmortal y perverso, uno de los que tuvo que ver con la casa en el pasado, ha creado y gobernado a distancia los extraños fenómenos. *Partial spoilers ahead* Essentially Pliny the Younger's "restless spirit" ghost story in a (relatively) modern setting, this 1859 novelette is one of the greatest haunted house tales in all of Western literature. M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft admired it, and the story's influence is palpable in virtually every haunted house yarn written since. It's also a masterpiece of mood and atmosphere, Lord Bulwer-Lytton's description of the ghostly phenomena encountered by the narrator retaining much of its potency despite the passage of 160 years. It appears that there were two published versions of "The House and the Brain": A.) one ending with the solution of the haunted house mystery and B.) the slightly longer version I read, in which the narrator confronts the villain of the piece (the man whose mesmeric spell was responsible for all the trouble to begin with). Some critics feel that this last scene is an unnecessary appendage, but I enjoyed it. It lends some weight and reality to a character who would otherwise have been no more than a spectral presence in the story, and I think the Comte de Saint Germain would have gotten a kick out of it, too. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Is opgenomen inThe Collected Works of Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) door Edward-George Bulwer-Lytton Ghosts door Aiden Chambers Ghost Stories door Ales̆ Haman Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Ed door Isaac Asimov The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All door Lon Milo DuQuette Bulwer Lytton's Novels (A Strange Story; Zanoni; The Haunted And The Haunters) door Edward Bulwer Lytton (indirect) Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters: An Unfinished Historical Romance door Lord Lytton Gespenster door Mary Hottinger Inspireerde
Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. An empty house, where no one dares live. A landlord who swears no one can make it through a single night. A brave, or foolish, young man with a scientific mind, who takes the challenge and locks himself in for a night he will never forget. And of course, it is a dark and stormy night... Apparitions, dark magic, floating objects, and paralyzing terror all wait any one who dares enter the doorway of this London haunted house. Written by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, most known for the classic horror intro "It was a dark and stormy night" Lytton takes his place in the archives of the most frightening fiction with The House and the Brain. Originally published in 1859 as The Haunters and the Haunted, or The House and the Brain this story will make even the most modern reader's blood curl. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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