Couching at the DoorPickle Partners Publishing, 21 okt 2016 - 199 pagina's In this collection of dark, supernatural tales the esteemed author D. K. Broster gave full reign to her vivid imagination. Sometimes—as in “The Window” or “The Pestering,” or “All Soul’s Day”—these are what we might call ‘explainable’ ghost stories: apparitions or hauntings whose origin is to be found in some violent or unjust action in the past. Other stories, “Couching at the Door” and “From the Abyss,” have little or no explanation, even in supernatural terms. Add to these an elegant reworking of the Persephone myth, “The Taste of Pomegranates,” the downright bloodthirsty “Clairvoyance,” and the psychological studies, “The Promised Land” and “The Pavement” which so well merit the heading ‘Madness and Obsession’, and you have a collection to disturb and unsettle the strongest nerves. Literary historian Jack Adrian describes Couching at the Door as “a pure masterwork, one of the most satisfying weird collections of the century”. |
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... can't be! It's a real snake of some kind! That could be dealt with. He snatched up the poker as the boathing, still swaying the head which was no head, kept pouring steadily out from under the lifted yellow frill, until quite three feet ...
... can't be! It's a real snake of some kind! That could be dealt with. He snatched up the poker as the boathing, still swaying the head which was no head, kept pouring steadily out from under the lifted yellow frill, until quite three feet ...
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... can't you help me? Can't you send this thing away?' When the cloud had passed he found that he had.
... can't you help me? Can't you send this thing away?' When the cloud had passed he found that he had.
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... can't—he swore to absolute secrecy. I hadn't bargained, however, for his ceasing work. Suppose he finds himself unable to complete the designs for Theodora and Marozia! That would be serious...However, to have freed myself is worth any ...
... can't—he swore to absolute secrecy. I hadn't bargained, however, for his ceasing work. Suppose he finds himself unable to complete the designs for Theodora and Marozia! That would be serious...However, to have freed myself is worth any ...
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... can't bring myself to put it into words.' 'What do you mean?' He looked down at me very gravely. 'I can best say what I mean by telling you that when you were all discussing “split personality” just now, the ignorant Roddy Pearson was ...
... can't bring myself to put it into words.' 'What do you mean?' He looked down at me very gravely. 'I can best say what I mean by telling you that when you were all discussing “split personality” just now, the ignorant Roddy Pearson was ...
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... can't tell it at all. We became engaged in January 1935, just over three years ago. In March Daphne went out with a friend, Mary Frodsham, to the Riviera, and finally came to anchor at Nice—not, as Daphne wrote to me, because they liked ...
... can't tell it at all. We became engaged in January 1935, just over three years ago. In March Daphne went out with a friend, Mary Frodsham, to the Riviera, and finally came to anchor at Nice—not, as Daphne wrote to me, because they liked ...
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CLAIRVOYANCE 36 | |
THE PAVEMENT 49 | |
THE WINDOW 60 | |
JUGGERNAUT 73 | |
THE PROMISED LAND 87 | |
THE PESTERING 104 | |
THE TASTE OF POMEGRANATES 132 | |
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