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Автор: George W.M.Reynolds
Год: 2008
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 160
ISBN: 9781605203454
Having bound Flora Francatelli to the chair, in the manner just described, the three nuns fell back a few paces, and the wretched girl felt the floor giving way under her. A dreadful scream burst from her lips as slowly, slowly the chair sank down; while the working of hidden machinery in the roof, and the steady, monotonous revolution of wheels, sounded with ominous din upon her ears. An ice-stream seemed to pour over her soul. Wildly she cast around her eyes; and then more piercing became her shrieks, as she found herself gradually descending into what seemed to be a pit or well... —from Chapter XIX: “The Descent.—The Chamber of Penitence” Fans of horror and students of the history of pulp fiction will be enthralled by this little-remembered early novel of werewolf fantasy, a “penny dreadful” first published in 1846–7 and written by British author GEORGE WILLIAM MACARTHUR REYNOLDS (1814–1879). The veritable Stephen King of his day—his lurid stories were more widely read than...
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