Asylum, The
- 272 stránok
- 10 hodin čítania
After waking up in a small asylum in England with no memory of the past several weeks, Georgia Ferrars learns that her family believes she is an imposter.
John Harwood Poradie kníh
John Harwood je autorom dvoch predchádzajúcich románov viktoriánskeho gotického napätia. Okrem beletrie jeho publikovaná práca zahŕňa biografie, poéziu, politickú žurnalistiku a literárnu históriu. Jeho literárna tvorba je charakterizovaná plynulým štýlom, ktorý vtiahne čitateľa do atmosféry a deja. Harwoodove príbehy často skúmajú témy tajomstva, skrytých vášní a vplyvu minulosti.
- 2022
- 2014
A young woman wakes in a strange bed. Doctor Maynard Straker steps into the room, and speaks.`Have no fear, Miss Ashton.She is Miss Georgina Ferrars, and she can prove it. But when Dr Straker sends a telegram to her uncle in London, the reply is swift:GEORGINA FERRARS HERE STOP YOUR PATIENT MUST BE IMPOSTER STOPMadness?
- 2008
The Seance
- 304 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance Langton takes her to a seance. Perhaps they will find comfort from beyond the grave. But that seance has tragic consequences.
- 2004
Ein Frauenportrait, dessen Anblick todbringend ist, die Augen einer Porzellanpuppe wie unheimliche Träume erscheinen die Geistergeschichten, die Viola Hatherley um 1900 in London schrieb. Ein Jahrhundert später, gerät der junge Gerard aufs Neue in ihren Bann. Gerard entdeckt ein verlassenes Haus in Hampstead Heath in London. Hier scheinen Violas Schauergeschichten lebendig zu werden. Um das Geheimnis einer großen tragischen Liebe und seiner eigenen Vergangenheit zu enthüllen, muss Gerard die Welt der Geister betreten.
