The enduring flame

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James Herbert

David Ash, un investigador parapsicológico, es invitado a Edbrook, una remota casa de campo en donde está teniendo lugar un presunto hechizo. Ash goza de reputación por rechazar toda clase de fenómenos sobrenaturales dudosos, habiendo descubierto muchos mediums falsos en el pasado y encontrado invariablemente las causas de los denominados fenómenos psiquicos. El posee profundas razones psicológicas para cuestionar tales hechos inexplicables. Pero en Edbrook hay un misterio que no puede ser explicado fácilmente. En tres alucinantes noches de terror, David Ash se ve forzado no sólo a poner en tela de juicio sus convicciones, sino también a enfrentarse con el enigma de su propio pasado.

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(by) Kathleen Kinder

Synopsis - The house was built on Raven’s Moor. White stone in a sombre setting, colonnaded, tiered round with balconies, it had gleamed in the moorland half light like some huge sinister wedding cake. The long windows had shone with the glow of a hundred candles; there was dancing in the ballroom; music from the great gallery; and on the terrace the silken couples strolling, and the soft murmur of theri laughter. But all that was past. By the time Emily Dove came to Raven’s Moor in the autumn of 1876, to be servant to Albert and Sophie Stone, things had changed. Only the servants wing was in occupation now a chilly, comfortless apartment for Emily and her employers. Outside, nettles grew hight in the formal gardens, and the paths were moss grown and cracked. Ivy cloaked the house, shrouded its balconies, blinded is very windows. And somewhere under its crumbling icing, the great cake of Raven’s Moor was rotten. If she had not fallen in love with Albert, Emily’s youth and innocence might have protected her and kept her ignorant. But, loving Albert himself an innocent, and destined victim of the evil that inhabited the house her eyes were opened. She saw that death stalked Raven’s Moor. And worse than death: Sophia, last daughter of the bad blood of the Tremaines, patrolled the empty corridors and prowled by night the locked and shuttered rooms. On what old, unspeakable secret did she brood? And when that secret was revealed, what catastrophe would come to Raven’s Moor and those who lived there? The Raven and the Dove is gothic horror at its most sensitive and most powerful. Here is a novel for readers who like to feel that special chill at the base of the spine; who like to pick up a book and then find they simply can’t put it down.

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Lily Moresby Adams Beck

L. Adams Beck began her career by publishing stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Asia, and the Japanese Gassho. These stories were later put into collections. Stories in this collection include: -- The Ninth Vibration -- The Interpreter: A Romance of the East -- The Incomparable Lady: A Story of China with a Moral -- The Hatred of the Queen: A Story of Burma -- Fire of Beauty -- The Building of the Taj Mahal -- How Great is the Glory of Kwannon! -- The Round-Faced Beauty.

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George Eliot

George Eliot's Gothic story, published the same year as her staunchly realist novel, Adam Bede, continues her preoccupation with human communication and sympathy through the figure of the telepathic narrator. Latimer, one of her least likeable characters, suffers tremendously under his heightened awareness of others' petty and selfish thoughts. Latimer chooses to tell the story of his abilities as a tale of disability, a kind of pathography about his gift. The vehemence of his disgust for human frailties suggests that Latimer's pain derives at least in part from his failure of empathy for others (except at his father's death)--that his discomfort with telepathic communication rests on his resistance to human connection in general. Thus, his uncanny hearing unmasks a kind of sympathetic deafness to others, and his progressive heart disease indexes the shriveling of his capacity for human love and friendship.