It's a work of dark literary fiction that should wow genre fiction and mainstream fiction readers alike." Paul Goat Allen
Centering on a crumbling mansion built in the 19th century on a remote island in Georgian Bay and the nightmarish consequences of its gruesome history, this novel was unputdownable-definitely an up-all-night read! Like stories from the aforementioned Radcliffe and Poe, this novel is replete with rich imagery and symbolism and succeeds brilliantly on multiple levels. " Wild Fell, is classic Gothic fiction à la Ann Radcliffe and Edgar Allan Poe.rtfully constructed, a tale as deliberate and inexorable as a glacier." Publishers Weekly A modern take on Gothic ghost stories, Rowe's second novel replaces the isolated heroines of such tales with an equally isolated, socially estranged man and adds such unsavory details as modern audiences might find diverting.In short, Wild Fell is supernatural fiction of the highest order." Clive Barker This is a novel for lovers of fine storytelling a book that evokes terrors both ancient and modern and delivers us to a place of profound fear where the past and present intersect, conjuring a dark world where the dead wear our faces. The mysteries of love and time haunt the beautifully wrought pages of Michael Rowe's superb ghost story Wild Fell.And now, at long last, it has found him.įrom the Sunburst and Aurora Award-nominated author of Enter, Night comes an unforgettable contemporary ghost story in the classic tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. It has been waiting for Jameson his whole life.
But what waits for him at the house is devoted to its darkness and guards it jealously. Jameson Browning, a man well acquainted with suffering, has purchased Wild Fell with the intention of beginning a new life, of letting in the light. For a hundred years, the townspeople of Alvina have prayed that the darkness inside Wild Fell would stay there, locked away from the light. Built for his family by a 19th-century politician of impeccable rectitude, the house has kept its terrible secrets and its darkness sealed within its walls. The crumbling summerhouse called Wild Fell, soaring above the desolate shores of Blackmore Island, has weathered the violence of the seasons for more than a century.
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