A fine novel that is destined to become a classic.

Wild Fell is supernatural fiction of the highest order.' -Clive Barker, author of The Scarlet Gospels 'Deeply textured, richly imagined, and with characters that leap from the book, Wild Fell is an atmospheric ghost story that grips from the first page. 'A novel for lovers of fine storytelling a book that evokes terrors both ancient and modern. How could he say no? Except something is waiting inside the house for Jameson, ready to show him his senses can't always be trusted and the past isn't always gone forever. It's a good location, and the price is a steal. Jameson Browning is ready for a break from all the drama in his life when he discovers an ad in the newspaper for a turn-of-the-century estate on a private island in Georgian Bay. The townspeople do their best to avoid the place, and no one has lived there for over fifty years-until now.

A sinister past lies within its walls, and rumors of teenagers disappearing nearby have become the stuff of local legend. Rising from the fog over the waters of Devil's Lake, Blackmore Island is home to the infamous summerhouse called Wild Fell. An unforgettable contemporary ghost story in the tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw from the award-winning author of October.

From the young boy whose gender identity appears fluid to the adult who finds every secure foundation eroded away from under him, the novel is artfully constructed, a tale as deliberate and inexorable as a glacier. A modern take on Gothic ghost stories, Rowe's (Enter, Night) second novel replaces the isolated heroines of such tales with an equally isolated, socially estranged man and adds such unsavory details as modern audiences might find diverting. Trapped alone, unable to trust the evidence of his senses or even his memory, Browning must somehow come to grips with his spectral host or become the latest victim.

Only after taking possession of the property does Browning learn of Wild Fell's dark reputation, a sinister history reaching back across a century to the days when a brutal, perverse millionaire preyed on his own daughter and dark magic that has tied Browning to a vengeful, possessive specter longer than he can suspect. over the waters of Devils Lake, Blackmore Island is home to the infamous summerhouse called Wild Fell. For Jameson Browning, Wild Fell, a turn-of-the-century mansion on an island in Devil's Lake, combines easy access to the institute where his father is dying from Alzheimer's with glorious isolation from a world that has too often given him bullying, broken relationships and sudden loss. Wild Fell by Michael Rowe digital book - Fable.

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