Russell Kirk

National Review guru Kirk (The Conservative Mind) is also conservative when it comes to his occult/fantasy concoctions (see also The Princess of All Lands, p. 470)--and this updated ""mystical romance, conforming faithfully to the canons of the Gothick tale as expounded by Walter Scott,"" elaborately lays on just about all the hoary castle/coven trappings and traumas, with a few au courant asides ...

Attorney Hugh Logan leaves Canada for Scotland to negotiate the purchase of Carnglass Island and the castle Old House of Fear for his employer, Duncan MacAskival. Logan is continually thwarted and threatened on his journey. But no matter how bad his travels, his arrival onto the island brings much worse trouble. Carnglass is under the control of evil genius Dr. Edmund Jackman, a Soviet-educated po...

Sorworth Place Behind the stumps The princess of all lands The last god's dream The cellar of little Egypt Ex tenebris Balgrummo's hell There's a long, long trail a-winding Saviourgate