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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... face blanched in the sunshine, his hand firmly clenched. Inside that closed hand something feather-soft pulsated...Holding back as best he could the disgust and the something more which clutched at him, Augustine Marchant stooped and ...
... face blanched in the sunshine, his hand firmly clenched. Inside that closed hand something feather-soft pulsated...Holding back as best he could the disgust and the something more which clutched at him, Augustine Marchant stooped and ...
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... face in the pillows, even heaping them over his head as if he could thus stifle the memory of what he had seen. He kept his bed next morning; the supposed cold afforded a good pretext. Long before the maid came in to relay the fire he ...
... face in the pillows, even heaping them over his head as if he could thus stifle the memory of what he had seen. He kept his bed next morning; the supposed cold afforded a good pretext. Long before the maid came in to relay the fire he ...
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... face—ordinarily by no means attenuated—seemed to have fallen in, there were dark circles under his eyes, and the perturbed Lawrence, observing him as the meal progressed, thought that his manner, too, seemed strange and once or twice ...
... face—ordinarily by no means attenuated—seemed to have fallen in, there were dark circles under his eyes, and the perturbed Lawrence, observing him as the meal progressed, thought that his manner, too, seemed strange and once or twice ...
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... wondered uneasily what this could be which was thus commanded, but his attention was chiefly focused on Augustine Marchant's face. After he had said these words several times, and apparently without result, a dreadful change came upon it, ...
... wondered uneasily what this could be which was thus commanded, but his attention was chiefly focused on Augustine Marchant's face. After he had said these words several times, and apparently without result, a dreadful change came upon it, ...
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... face a moment with his hands, and then went back and softly closed the door. At that Lawrence woke; but in the morning he had forgotten all three dreams. The tête-à-tête dinner on the last night of his stay would have lingered in a ...
... face a moment with his hands, and then went back and softly closed the door. At that Lawrence woke; but in the morning he had forgotten all three dreams. The tête-à-tête dinner on the last night of his stay would have lingered in a ...
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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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