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A Shadow on the Wall
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A haunting tale of evil spirits and ancient curses by a master of historical horror who “has the fiction of fear down to a fine art” (Tor.com).
In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb that lay beneath the church’s crumbling walls. The moment the workman raised the tomb lid, an unspeakable horror escaped. At a loss to explain the unsettling noises and frightening visions that begin to plague the church, Atherton calls upon Cambridge professor Richard Asquith to help investigate.
The two discover tantalizing hints of whom—and what—may have been laid to rest in the tomb, but unforeseen circumstances force Asquith to give up his inquiries and leave the small village of Thornham behind. Asquith tries to put the frightening experiences behind him and focus on his new wife and family. But death and disappearances abound, and Asquith soon has no choice but to confront the darkness that has followed him from that ancient church into his own home.
A Shadow on the Wall, nominated in 2000 for the International Horror Guild Award, is a “gracefully written” fantasy sure to keep you up a night (Kirkus Reviews).
In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb that lay beneath the church’s crumbling walls. The moment the workman raised the tomb lid, an unspeakable horror escaped. At a loss to explain the unsettling noises and frightening visions that begin to plague the church, Atherton calls upon Cambridge professor Richard Asquith to help investigate.
The two discover tantalizing hints of whom—and what—may have been laid to rest in the tomb, but unforeseen circumstances force Asquith to give up his inquiries and leave the small village of Thornham behind. Asquith tries to put the frightening experiences behind him and focus on his new wife and family. But death and disappearances abound, and Asquith soon has no choice but to confront the darkness that has followed him from that ancient church into his own home.
A Shadow on the Wall, nominated in 2000 for the International Horror Guild Award, is a “gracefully written” fantasy sure to keep you up a night (Kirkus Reviews).
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the fourth creepy Gothic horror novel I have read by this author, each one in the run up to four of the last five Christmases. In this one set in 1883, Cambridge classics Professor Richard Asquith becomes involved in a haunting in a church in a remote Cambridgeshire village. This is centred around the tomb of a 14th century abbot who in despair at the deaths of so many brethren in the Black Death invokes evil forces that then take hold. While the author built up the usual creepy atmosphere he does so well, I though this lacked the impact of the first two of his I read, especially the fantastic Whispers in the Dark. This one did, however, have a more conclusively happy ending for Asquith and his newly acquired family.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A delightfully classic Gothic ghost story, with an evil monk, Victorian scholars, and all kinds of ominous Latin. My biggest complaint (which is relatively small) is that the evil idol is of an Egyptian god; I fail to see why an Egyptian god is any more evil than, say, Baphomet (and Baphomet has the advantage of being fictional).