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Trade paper ISBN-13: 978-1960241184 LIST PRICE: $17.99 PAGES: 204 Published 2024 |
Pippin's Journal (1962)
Rohan O'Grady Previously published as The Curse of the Montrolfes Book Description
“Slowly, and not without a certain inexplicable feeling of foreboding, I limped up the weed-grown gravel path to the door of Cliff House . . .” John Montrolfe, malformed and malevolent, the latest inheritor of the family curse, has come to England to claim his ancestral inheritance. He is grudgingly admitted to the Gothic mansion by a toothless old crone, and night after night his dreams are haunted by the phantom image of a beautiful young maiden. When he reaches out to touch the girl, the spectre’s head falls grotesquely to one side and she vanishes as he awakes in horror. Montrolfe happens upon a secret drawer containing an old journal, written by the girl whose ghost has haunted him. In its pages a strange and horrible story unfolds, a tale of murder and buried treasure, a story that will finally reveal young Pippin’s terrible fate and the origin of the Curse of the Montrolfes . . . A spellbinding Gothic page-turner, Rohan O’Grady’s Pippin’s Journal (1962) received rave reviews on its initial publication and returns to print at last to enchant and terrify a new generation of readers. |
REVIEWS
“A story that should be read at a sitting, preferably when the wind whistles like a demon around the house and curtains are drawn against rain-splashed windows . . . O’Grady writes in the tradition of the Gothic novelists and the story she tells might have been written by Edgar Allan Poe or a Brontë . . . Sheer reading enjoyment.” — Pittsburgh Press
"An engaging tale of horror." — New York Herald Tribune
“There is a lurid fascination about the yarn, which instills a blood-chilling impatience to learn what happens next.” — Chicago Tribune
“Elegance and sinister poetry … O’Grady manages the romantic macabre with dancing gusto [and] moves naturally in the language and atmosphere of the eighteenth century of her ghosts.” — Daily Herald (London)
“Who could resist the pursuit of the Montrolfe curse? … [T]ruly in the spirit and tradition of Otranto.” — Baltimore Sun
“A natural, well-wrought, well-written shocker.” — Buffalo News
"An engaging tale of horror." — New York Herald Tribune
“There is a lurid fascination about the yarn, which instills a blood-chilling impatience to learn what happens next.” — Chicago Tribune
“Elegance and sinister poetry … O’Grady manages the romantic macabre with dancing gusto [and] moves naturally in the language and atmosphere of the eighteenth century of her ghosts.” — Daily Herald (London)
“Who could resist the pursuit of the Montrolfe curse? … [T]ruly in the spirit and tradition of Otranto.” — Baltimore Sun
“A natural, well-wrought, well-written shocker.” — Buffalo News
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