The Haunted Woman
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · December 6, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- A tense, atmospheric novel where a remote house unsettles the borders of reality.
- Themes
- Nature of reality, Alternate realities, Life-changing discovery
- Genres
- Gothic Romance, The Occult & Supernatural, Horror
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The Haunted Woman is a tense, atmospheric novel that questions the nature of reality. Isbel Loment is leading an ordinary, if uneventful, existence. She is engaged to a rather boring man and is just passing through her own life. Everything changes when she and her fiancé rent a remote house in Sussex. In the house Isbel discovers rooms that appear to exist in different realities from her own. Her discoveries in this house will change both her life and her destiny forever .
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David Lindsay was author of A Voyage to Arcturus, and is considered to be one of the great British fantasy authors. His work forms a bridge from George MacDonald to authors such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, who both greatly admired Lindsay's work.
Reality at the Door
A tense, atmospheric novel where a remote house unsettles the borders of reality.
Come here for
- Gothic unease and questions with no easy answers
- A domestic setting made strange
Expect
- Reality-bending rooms and an increasingly altered life
- Atmosphere over straightforward explanation
Where it sits
| The Occult & Supernatural | 34% |
|---|---|
| Gothic Romance | 23% |
| Horror | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ghost Stories
- Psychological Fiction
- Supernatural Thrillers
- Authors
- David Lindsay
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- December 6, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Nature of reality · Alternate realities · Life-changing discovery
- Reading lane
- Ghost Stories