Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Before reading Wylder's Hand, the only acquaintance I had with it was from the references to it in Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey stories. I'd come away with the impression that it was a supernatural story of some kind. Well, it (probably) isn't. It's more of a Gothic thriller. ( Hopefully free of major spoilers )
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thisbluespirit's
picspam
of a couple of years ago, my interest was piqued when I caught sight of this
book. It comprises three individual works:
(I've subsequently found that all the stories are out of copyright in
Australia, and hence
can be downloaded).
( Thoughts (spoiler-lite) )
On a different topic, and since I was pinching elements of Moondial for fic the other day: The BBC have finally got round to reissuing the DVD.
(It includes an excellent example of TemptingFate, when Minty muses that her aunt's new guest will "probably [be] the most harmless old duck in the world".
( Well, see for yourself. )
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