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La Casa Y El Cerebro (1901)

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Impedimenta

review 1: I only know of Lord Lytton as the author of the Last Days of Pompeii, so I was very surprised to find he had dabbled in writing horror stories.This one is a haunted house story where each person sees something different. In need of an adventure, the hero, after a friend tells him of renting this house, decides to rent it himself. He sends his manservant off to prepare it - as you do.They spend one night in the house. They find some letters that suggest a dire deed. The rest of the night goes very badly. So badly that the manservant runs out of the house and emigrates to Australia (that made me laugh). Regardless of what happened and what he saw and felt, he becomes determined to prove that it is not mystical but must be based in nature. Like an early debunker of the supern... moreatural.It is quite interesting because it not only has the elements of the scary story but also an attempt to demystify it.
review 2: 'It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.'A largely forgotten Victorian novelist, vastly successful at the time. This was the first ghost story I read. I love it. less

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