Name: Witch-Cult Abbey
SKU: 54007589
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Author: Mark Samuels

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mark Samuels

Publisher

Hippocampus Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

162

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.9 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781614983521

Synopsis "Witch-Cult Abbey "

When, in 1940, Saul Prior receives a letter from Lady Caroline Degabaston to catalogue the library of Thool Abbey in Hertfordshire, he jumps at the chance. But he soon finds himself in a realm that seems cut off from the real world. In the cryptic fastnesses of the abbey, Prior is beset by bizarre dreams and seems incapable of leaving the place. Lady Caroline proves to be a baleful and mysterious presence, and Prior is mired in a landscape that mingles Gothic terror and surrealism. The actual books that Prior is tasked with cataloguing are themselves a farrago of occultism, psychological aberration, and cosmic horror. And when other presences manifest themselves in and around the castle, Prior knows that he has stumbled into an adventure that is unlikely to end short of death or madness. Mark Samuels has knitted together many of the themes that appear in his previous work into a grand synthesis of dread and awe. Impeccably written, with careful attention to historical detail and the portrayal of the strange characters he puts on stage, Witch-Cult Abbey is a triumph of supernatural terror.

Mark Samuels

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Mark Samuels is a British fiction writer in the vein of Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft. Born in the depths of Clapham, south of London, he was first published in 1988, and his short stories often focus on detailing a grim world where his protagonists gradually discover terrifying and enthusiastic sights lurking behind modernity. His work has been highly praised by people like Thomas Ligotti and Ramsey Campbell and has appeared in prestigious horror and weird fiction anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic.

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