Palace of shadows
Celestin, Ray2024
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Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics alike, his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile living in Paris, and a personal tragedy has taken its toll. So when he is contacted by a mysterious heiress, Mrs Chesterfield, and asked to work on a commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers' Coast of North Yorkshire, he accepts the offer. Staying overnight in the local village pub, Samuel is warned not to spend too much time there. He is told of the fate of the house's original architect, Francisco Varano, chilling tales of folk driven mad by the house, of it being built on haunted land where young girls have vanished, their ghosts now calling others to their deaths. It is only on arrival at the Chesterfield house that he learns the sinister details of Varano's disappearance.
Main title:
Palace of shadows / Ray Celestin.
Author:
Celestin, Ray, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2024.
Collation:
340 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Mantle, 2023.
ISBN:
9781035019113 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FFICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3862667