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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... which had so startled and shocked all but the 'decadent' and the 'advanced', Pomegranates of Sin, Queen Theodora and Queen Marozia, The Nights of the Tour de Nesle, Amor Cypriacus, Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS COUCHING AT THE DOOR 1 2 3.
... which had so startled and shocked all but the 'decadent' and the 'advanced', Pomegranates of Sin, Queen Theodora and Queen Marozia, The Nights of the Tour de Nesle, Amor Cypriacus, Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS COUCHING AT THE DOOR 1 2 3.
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D. K. Broster. Marozia, The Nights of the Tour de Nesle, Amor Cypriacus, and the rest. But when, as the nineties began to wane, he inherited Abbot's Medding from a distant cousin and came to live there, being then at the height of an ...
D. K. Broster. Marozia, The Nights of the Tour de Nesle, Amor Cypriacus, and the rest. But when, as the nineties began to wane, he inherited Abbot's Medding from a distant cousin and came to live there, being then at the height of an ...
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... night in Prague the part he least wished to recall was connected—incidentally but undeniably— with a fur boa...a long boa of dark fur... He had to go up to town next day to a dinner in his honour. There and then he decided to go up that ...
... night in Prague the part he least wished to recall was connected—incidentally but undeniably— with a fur boa...a long boa of dark fur... He had to go up to town next day to a dinner in his honour. There and then he decided to go up that ...
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... night. Work was the best antidote. So Augustine Marchant rose, and was surprised and delighted to find the atmosphere of his study unusually soothing and inspiring; and that day, against all expectation, 'Salutation to All Unbeliefs ...
... night. Work was the best antidote. So Augustine Marchant rose, and was surprised and delighted to find the atmosphere of his study unusually soothing and inspiring; and that day, against all expectation, 'Salutation to All Unbeliefs ...
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... nights ago, dark and shining as before, rippling with a gentle movement as it coiled itself neatly together in the place where it had struck the bed, and subsided there in a symmetrical round, with only that tapering end a little raised ...
... nights ago, dark and shining as before, rippling with a gentle movement as it coiled itself neatly together in the place where it had struck the bed, and subsided there in a symmetrical round, with only that tapering end a little raised ...
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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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