Picture of Contented New Wealth, The - A metaphysical horror (Paperback)

In the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire Sunset Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound, and complaining of a rare bone disease that no Doctor can diagnose, her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older, more malign energy has passed, possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration his secular and agnostic world-view undergoes a metamorphosis, drawing him to a strange man from the hills: the Rector, their unlikely saviour. Or are he and his family merely victims of their own self-serving yuppie way of life? "You Were The Picture of Contented New Wealth" is a gothic tragedy set in the nineteen eighties, bringing proper characterisation and a literary sensibility to the traditional horror story. It's mix of generic elements and mystical realism deal with the irreducibility of evil and its successful normalisation in to our daily and dominant reality.

General

Imprint:	John Hunt Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Tariq Goddard
Dimensions:	215 x 141 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-1-84694-270-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
LSN:	1-84694-270-5
Barcode:	9781846942709

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