The House of the Wolf: A Romance, by Stanley John Weyman
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This is a historical romance set in the 17th century told in the form of someone's memoirs. From the intro: "The following is a modern English version of a curious French memoir, or fragment of autobiography, apparently written about the year 1620 by Anne, Vicomte de Caylus, and brought to this country—if, in fact, the original ever existed in England—by one of his descendants after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This Anne, we learn from other sources, was a principal figure at the Court of Henry IV., and, therefore, in August, 1572, when the adventures here related took place, he and his two younger brothers, Marie and Croisette, who shared with him the honour and the danger, must have been little more than boys. From the tone of his narrative, it appears that, in reviving old recollections, the veteran renewed his youth also, and though his story throws no fresh light upon the history of the time, it seems to possess some human interest."
The House of the Wolf: A Romance, by Stanley John Weyman- Published on: 2015-03-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .19" w x 6.00" l, .27 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 82 pages
About the Author English novelist, popular for his historical romances. Weyman started his literary career by writing short stories for various periodicals. Weyman's contemporary Hugh Walpole praised him for writing “the finest English historical romances since Scott.”
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Utterly superb. Old-school gothic tale of the highest order. By Alexiel Much of my enjoyment of this book comes from my love of the classic, traditional Romantic-gothic, particularly those written or set in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This fantastic book by Basil Copper fits the bill *beautifully.*A group of folklorists at a meeting in 19th century Hungary (we can assume in the Translyvania area as part of Transylvania is in Hungary) end up trapped inside the Homolky Castle due to weather, which stands menacingly above a village as you might imagine. The castle is appropriately huge and lonely, with many dark and unexplored passages. It's located in a forbidding landscape of forests and mountains. The Homolky clan is a bit strange and mysterious, but the clincher is that they and their castle have a history of being haunted by a werewolf. Indeed, as the folklorists stay on in the castle, it appears they are all being stalked, and gruesome murders turn up evidence pointing to the werewolf. Now one of the men has to get to the bottom of what's going on and unearth the secrets behind the hauntings and attacks.It may sound like a cliched set-up, but that's the beauty - I love set-ups like these, but since they're seen as so cliched, it turns out there are very few serious books you can name that are structured in this way. It's a story in the vein of the classic gothic tales - late night supernatural encounters in the castle, shadowed castle corridors, a beautiful and haunted young woman in peril, mysterious murder, long-buried family secrets... this story has it all, and Basil Copper executes it in a flawlessly haunting and atmospheric way.By now I think you should know whether this book is for you or not. It's intelligently written, and perhaps the cynics would call this book "cheesy," but I am a big fan of the classic gothic atmosphere... frankly we need more books written for adults in which a character has to play supernatural detective in a forbidding 19th century castle. If you're a fan of this type of book, then I can't recommend it enough.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Not What I Expected By romancefan Up until I read The House of The Wolf, I did not have a great track record with the classics offered for Kindle. This book was a pleasant surprise. Written as the experiences of a French aristocrat, almost as if it is autobiographical, during the Parisian revolt of the 1500's, this is a story of adventure, redemption and romance. To be sure a great, interesting little read. I could hardly put it down. The ending was not what I expected.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Simply the best Gothic horror I've ever read. By Lynne M. Mikesh-Whitney In The House of the Wolf, Basil Copper has created the ultimate fusion of modern literary style with the traditional Gothic-horror novel. That is, it presents all the elements of the best of the classic 19th-century Gothics in terms of plot and atmosphere, but written with a modern sensibility. The classic features are all there: the snowbound Hungarian village, the exotic and towering Homolky Castle with its rearing towers and secret cellars, the noble family with secrets to hide, the gathering of men of science. The choice of a werewolf as the adversary is actually fairly unusual--in the traditional Gothic the role would more likely fall to a ghost or vampire, and the creature is presented strictly in classic vein without any of the present-day tropes that have grown up around them in the World of Darkness/Laurell Hamilton/Underworld sense.Each page all but drips atmosphere: Copper is a master wordsmith and purely in his element here; each setting is brought to vivid life with an attention to detail that makes the horror seem all the more real. The danger to the characters is intimate and personal rather than distant and alien, the aura of mystery and fear is built carefully from chapter to chapter and builds to a conclusion that is both exciting and logical. A thread of dry, ironic humor also threads through the book (the name of the village; the fact that the gathering of scientists is actually one of experts in folklore, witchcraft, and so on; an offhand reference to the events of Copper's previous novel, Necropolis, in a newspaper headline read in one chapter) without breaking the mood.The cover and internal illustrations by Stephen Fabian are also worth noting; this is some of his finest work and help bring the story to life without being intrusive.I cannot recommend this book enough to any fan of the classic horror story. If you're the kind of person whose shelf already contains Dracula, Frankenstein, the works of Poe, or The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The House of the Wolf is a must-read.
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