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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic of gothic literature follows the
Pyncheon family in pre- and post-colonial New England, in their
ancestral home; the titular House of the Seven Gables. Published in
1851 at the height of the Gothic fiction craze, Hawthorne's book
follows two time frames: one involves flashbacks to the late 17th
century, while the other is set in the author's present day of the
mid-19th century. We witness the events leading up to the Salem
witch trials, and the construction of a house which came to
epitomise the foreboding gloom of late Gothic architecture. We hear
how the very construction of the house was unjust, the land was
seized from its rightful owner via cynical accusations of
witchcraft. The newly-built mansion is thought to harbor a curse
when Colonel Pyncheon dies during its housewarming party.
Thereafter this event overshadows the lives of the Pyncheon family
members, who begin to feel the house and its grim legacy weigh on
their shoulders.
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Carmilla
(Hardcover)
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu; Introduction by Karl Wurf
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R582
Discovery Miles 5 820
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This Book has Eight young Collage Students. Four Males, Four
Females , "But" One The Males Has Two Personality's, The second one
he Knew nothing of.. Or Did He? The Male was Mentally and
Physically Abused, Mistreated Growing Up By His Step Father and
Biological Mother.. He was a Big Tall Muscular Long Haired, Redneck
Cowboy- Purdy- Boy Named Duke, But In The Nyght When Duke Sleeps
and Dreams, The second Personality Or Is It.. comes out, and He Is
Not A He, And He Is Not a She, "It" is an "It" Which "It" creates A
Mask From Dukes Nyghtmares in Which.. Still Lives In Dukes Memories
as a Child and a Teenager.. A Creature that Devoured Him in His
Nyghtmare.. A Face Of Evil, The Secret of This Mask and "It" behind
The Mask Is Named CHAOS! The New and Improved Killer Clown From
HELL!" Now Vicky Must Stop this Ultimate Evil Before The Entire
Campus Falls Prey, Because The question isn't only How Vicky can
But also Whether or Not CHAOS! Is going to get them.. Its How and
When..?"
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