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The Feast of Bacchus (Paperback)
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" A] book of strange adventures, of ghostly, nightmare visions; you
will want to read it at a sitting, but do not begin it at bedtime
unless your nerves are in a thoroughly healthy condition" - "The
Reader"
" Q]uite a remarkable book . . . Mr. Henham has the exceptional
gift of lending an atmosphere of reality to the fantastic. . . .
Some people will find the book enthralling: others may pronounce it
quite mad, but everyone must recognise its undeniable cleverness."
- "The Outlook"
"This strange story . . . has a tropical luxuriance of imagination
quite unusual in works by English writers . . . an atmosphere of
eeriness and mystery strongly reminiscent of Poe. The plot is
clever, the characters well-drawn; but it is in his power to create
an atmosphere of vagueness and suggestion that Mr. Henham may be
said to possess something very like genius." - "The Publisher"
In the remote hamlet of Thorlund stands the manor house known as
the Strath, an eerie place that exercises a mysterious hold over
anyone who enters it. The site of tragedy in 1742 when its owner,
Sir John Hooper, turned highwayman and met his death on the
gallows, the Strath has remained vacant for over a century, a pair
of hideous masks its only occupants. When the novel opens, the
Strath's new owner has just arrived from America to take possession
of the house, but he is soon found horribly murdered. Now the next
heir, young Charles Conway, has come to the Strath, and the house
begins to work its baneful influence on him and on the local
residents, causing them to behave in bizarre and violent ways. What
is the connection between the sinister power of the Strath and the
ghastly masks that adorn the wall? And once Conway and the others
are drawn within the evil place, can any of them possibly survive?
"One of England's lost novelists, a writer of startling abilities"
("Times Literary Supplement"), Ernest G. Henham, who also published
under the pseudonym "John Trevena," was the author of bizarre
Gothic fantasies such as "Tenebrae" (1898) and "The Feast of
Bacchus" (1907), as well as a number of unusual and highly
imaginative works set in Dartmoor. This first-ever republication of
Henham's novel includes a new introduction by Gerald Monsman.
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