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    The Uninvited

    By Dorothy Macardle and Luke Gibbons

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    Brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald flee their busy London lives for the beautiful but stormy Devon coastline. They are drawn to the suspiciously inexpensive Cliff End, feared amongst locals as a place of disturbance and ill omen. Gradually, the Fitzgeralds learn of the mysterious deaths of Mary Meredith and another strange young woman. Together, they must unravel the mystery of Cliff End's uncanny past - and keep the troubled young Stella, who was raised in the house as a baby, from returning to the nursery where something waits to tuck her in at night... The second in Tramp's Recovered Voices series, this strange, bone-chilling story was first published in 1942, and was adapted for the screen as one of Hollywood's most successful ghost stories, The Uninvited, in 1944.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTramp Press
    Release dateNov 13, 2015
    ISBN9780993459252
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    • 5/5
      Excellent classic haunted house novel by an Irish feminist. It took me a few chapters to get hooked but by chapter 8 I was unable to put it down!
    • 4/5
      would probably be different today but not much. I'd say there would be more or less supernatural elements to the story and the end was a little flat, I didn't really feal a real relationship build, but overall this stands up well against the test of time. Siblings Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald leave London for the Devon Coastline and fall in love with Cliff End, a house with a disturbed history, the unravelling of that history brings them face to face with ghosts, and the aftermath of things that people did that left echoes. Originally published in 1942 this is more psychological than paranormal and the troubles are believable. It's an interesting look at how some people create their own ghosts and troubles by trying to make things fit into their own moulds.Worth a read.
    • 4/5
      Lovely cozy read.
    • 5/5
      This was the first book I read in which there was a "real" ghost and not someone's trick and it really scared me. Perhaps I just like remember myself when young reading the book. The movie is also good with its beautiful theme, "Stella by Starlight."Also liked this author's THE UNFORESEEN
    • 3/5
      A brother, Roddy, [critic, playwright] and his sister, Pamela, leave the bright lights of London and settle on the Cornish coast in an old house Pamela falls in love with. They buy it in spite of the seller's warning them it's haunted by two ghosts, the owner's wife and a nursemaid. The novel is mostly why the ghosts are there and how they are driven out. Shivery, a creepy, eerie read, although somewhat dated in expressions and in the pseudopsychology of the time it was written. Very atmospheric.
    • 3/5
      I might have enjoyed this novel more if I hadn't previously read something that gave away the specific nature of this particular haunting. That could very well be what made the characters seem to me to be really slow on the uptake. But even without the spoiler I would've been annoyed by the dated if not downright pseudo psychology bandied about, and by all the time the narrator spends ignoring his haunted house in order to go on and on in a terribly precious way about his arty/intellectual vocation and friends. Still, I feel like it deserves 3 stars, so I must've liked the book more than I didn't like it.
    • 3/5
      A brother and sister weary of the London scene buy an outwardly charming fixer-upper on the Devonshire coast, only to find that they have paranormal tenants. They elect to stick it out and figure out why they're haunted. Well before the end of the book, I figured out what the "issue" was that caused the haunting, but it still made for an enjoyable, creepy read. The author's voice was remarkable: lush prose full of British-isms. I got up and made myself a cuppa Darjeeling tea at one point. Had to do it. There's no gore in this book, just oodles of atmosphere. What I found most satisfying was that the brother and sister approached the haunting like a pair of sleuths solving a mystery, so they were active instead of passive. I had to obtain the book via ILL because it's now out of print. What a pity.
    • 4/5
      This is a perfect ghost story. No goons with knives or chainsaws here. Just an old house on the cliffs by the sea, eerie presences and a mystery from the past. What more could you want?
    • 5/5
      What a wonderful ghost-story involving a beautiful haunted house overlooking the ocean. Miss Macardle's prose-as anciently arcane as it has been for this modern mainstream reader-brilliantly draws the reader into the story as if the laws of time had no boundary. I was gasping along with the ghosts!

      What's better than an engaging story? One with a twist! I want to thank a dear friend, Jayson, for this gifted read! I thoroughly enjoyed it and it has helped advance the prose of my current work set back in time. Now I look forward to watching the accompanying movie that was gifted along with this book!
    • 2/5
      It’s often hard to judge novels that were written a long time ago, because you almost have to put yourself in the mindset of the reader from that era. As a current reader, I have read many ghost/haunted house novels, and have probably watched as many movies with those topics. For me, this just didn’t standout in any way. Set in England in the nineteenth century, Roddy and Pamela are brothers and sisters, who move into a house that is apparently haunted. Stella, who is Roddy’s love interest and used to live in the house, is particularly affected by this, and it leads them to suspect that the ghost is that of her mother.The novel is part ghost story, part mystery, part romance, but doesn’t really succeed or fail as any of those things. The ghost elements were fairly generic. The mystery element was just okay with nothing earth shattering involved, and the romance left me ambivalent. Now, had I been a reader in the 40s when this came out, then this type of ghost story may have been a bit more interesting. I don’t want to sound overly negative. It’s not that it was a terrible novel. For me it was just okay with nothing about it to separate it from other similar novels that I have read.Carl Alves – author of Battle of the Soul
    • 4/5
      An old-fashioned ghost story originally published in 1942, The Uninvited for me was not particularly scary, but rather strangely charming. It was quite talky--no surprise that the narrator is a playwright--and I could easily imagine the spirited, oh-so-British young people at the center of the story. The setting of an abandoned house on a cliff overlooking the sea with its maze of rooms and windswept garden comes alive wonderfully through Macardle's prose. I have not seen the movie, but it's obvious how well this book would translate to film.
    • 5/5
      The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle is a classic haunted house story that was originally published in 1942 and was adapted to film in 1944. Looking to escape the stress and demands of life in London, brother and sister, Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald, find the perfect house on the Devon coast. The house had been empty for some time and the price was right so they snapped it up not knowing that they were soon to be plagued by paranormal events. The house was the site of the deaths of two women fifteen years ago. A young wife and mother, Mary, and her artist husband’s model and mistress, Carmel. Events surrounding the deaths of these women are murky but it appears that neither one actually died a natural death. Mary’s young daughter, Stella, still lives nearby and is happy and excited to be able to visit the house she was born in. Unfortunately, Stella seems to be the trigger for the apparitions, with one wanting to guard her while the other seems intent on driving Stella to her death.The Uninvited is one of my favourite ghostly movies and I wasn’t disappointed with the book either. All the classic events of a haunting, from extreme coldness, sounds of sobbing in the night, particular rooms where no one dares to spend much time, and visual sightings that root one to the spot are all scattered throughout the book. The story has a timeless quality and, at first, the disturbances are subtle and easy to dismiss, but as the book goes on, the atmosphere gets darker and darker and extreme danger comes to the forefront. If you enjoy a good but not over-done ghost story that is well written and solidly plotted, I recommend giving The Uninvited a try.