The Gothic Masterpiece Series: The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Novellas of Terror: Illustrated Edition
Book Details
PublisherFirbolg Publishing
ISBN / ASINB00MOMFTLW
ISBN-13978B00MOMFTL2
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
The wind rattles a windowpane. The rain beats staccato on the glass. The candle flame flickers ominously. What was that? Was that long shadow always there? Did a floorboard groan or was it... something else? This collection of classic Gothic novellas will leave you with nightmares like you've never experienced before. Four of the most disturbing, chilling, and bizarre tales from the masters of horror.
In William Fryer Harvey's "The Beast with Five Fingers," a disembodied hand returns from the grave to torment the living. Considered a classic ghost story, Harvey writes with a subtle and deceptive style. Infusing touches of dark humor into the ghastly narrative, Harvey skillfully keeps the reader just ahead of the protagonist. This creates a frightening tension as the plot builds because we see the danger while Eustace is utterly unaware. "The Beast with Five Fingers" is cinematic in its moments of climax, and it is no surprise that the concept of the spider-like crawling hand became a staple in horror films, most notably Warner’s 1945 feature of the same name.
"The Listener" by Algernon Blackwood is a haunting, melancholy tale of a young man and a monster. Searching for affordable lodging, a gentleman of little means finds a place that is a bit too good to be true. In time, he begins experiencing strange and unexplained events, and he soon learns the monstrous being he is sharing space with in his new quarters.
Inspired by the story of Rebecca Nurse during the Salem witch trials, Elizabeth Gaskell weaves a terrifying tale of hysteria, fear, and paranoia in the Puritan outpost of Massachusetts. Like Hawthorne's famous witch trial stories, Gaskell's story is a complex narrative of betrayal, lust, power, and religion run amok. "Lois the Witch" is a journey into the human mind, organized society, and the crossroads when it all goes terribly, terribly wrong.
The final novella is Leonid Andreyev's controversial "Lazarus." Taking on the Biblical tale of Lazarus and his resurrection, Andreyev depicts not a joyous return, but a second life as a zombie. His flesh is rotted, and he seems to draw the life spirit from those he comes into contact with in his travels. This is not the "light and the resurrection" as promised, but a lonely, shunned existence; an existence that comes to a terrible end.
Four terrifying tales from the masters of horror. The Gothic Masterpiece Series: The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Novellas of Terror is guaranteed to chill the blood. Sleep with the light on.
In William Fryer Harvey's "The Beast with Five Fingers," a disembodied hand returns from the grave to torment the living. Considered a classic ghost story, Harvey writes with a subtle and deceptive style. Infusing touches of dark humor into the ghastly narrative, Harvey skillfully keeps the reader just ahead of the protagonist. This creates a frightening tension as the plot builds because we see the danger while Eustace is utterly unaware. "The Beast with Five Fingers" is cinematic in its moments of climax, and it is no surprise that the concept of the spider-like crawling hand became a staple in horror films, most notably Warner’s 1945 feature of the same name.
"The Listener" by Algernon Blackwood is a haunting, melancholy tale of a young man and a monster. Searching for affordable lodging, a gentleman of little means finds a place that is a bit too good to be true. In time, he begins experiencing strange and unexplained events, and he soon learns the monstrous being he is sharing space with in his new quarters.
Inspired by the story of Rebecca Nurse during the Salem witch trials, Elizabeth Gaskell weaves a terrifying tale of hysteria, fear, and paranoia in the Puritan outpost of Massachusetts. Like Hawthorne's famous witch trial stories, Gaskell's story is a complex narrative of betrayal, lust, power, and religion run amok. "Lois the Witch" is a journey into the human mind, organized society, and the crossroads when it all goes terribly, terribly wrong.
The final novella is Leonid Andreyev's controversial "Lazarus." Taking on the Biblical tale of Lazarus and his resurrection, Andreyev depicts not a joyous return, but a second life as a zombie. His flesh is rotted, and he seems to draw the life spirit from those he comes into contact with in his travels. This is not the "light and the resurrection" as promised, but a lonely, shunned existence; an existence that comes to a terrible end.
Four terrifying tales from the masters of horror. The Gothic Masterpiece Series: The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Novellas of Terror is guaranteed to chill the blood. Sleep with the light on.
