Palace of shadows / Ray Celestin.
By: Celestin, Ray.
Publisher: London : Mantle, 2023Description: 352 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781035019076 (hbk.) :; 1035019078 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Horror | Horror | London, Greater London | Yorkshire | 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 | Historical mysteries | Horror & supernatural fictionGenre/Form: Gothic fiction (Literary genre).Summary: Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics alike, his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile living in Paris, and a personal tragedy has taken its toll. So when he is contacted by a mysterious heiress, Mrs Chesterfield, and asked to work on a commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers' Coast of North Yorkshire, he accepts the offer. Staying overnight in the local village pub, Samuel is warned not to spend too much time there. He is told of the fate of the house's original architect, Francisco Varano, chilling tales of folk driven mad by the house, of it being built on haunted land where young girls have vanished, their ghosts now calling others to their deaths. It is only on arrival at the Chesterfield house that he learns the sinister details of Varano's disappearance.Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics alike, his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile living in Paris, and a personal tragedy has taken its toll. So when he is contacted by a mysterious heiress, Mrs Chesterfield, and asked to work on a commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers' Coast of North Yorkshire, he accepts the offer. Staying overnight in the local village pub, Samuel is warned not to spend too much time there. He is told of the fate of the house's original architect, Francisco Varano, chilling tales of folk driven mad by the house, of it being built on haunted land where young girls have vanished, their ghosts now calling others to their deaths. It is only on arrival at the Chesterfield house that he learns the sinister details of Varano's disappearance.