The Tyranny of the Dark. Garland Hamlin
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Название: The Tyranny of the Dark
Автор: Garland Hamlin
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066193058
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ILLUSTRATIONS
| "SHE CAME SLOWLY, WITH ONE SLIM HAND ON THE RAILING" | Frontispiece |
| "THERE WAS IN HIS LOOK AN EXPRESSION OF ACKNOWLEDGED KINSHIP" | Facing p. 6 |
| "SERVISS LISTENED WITH GROWING AMAZEMENT" | Facing p. 36 |
| "VIOLA, TOO, CAME BACK TO BEWITCH HIM FROM HIS READING" | Facing p. 108 |
| "'WHAT DO YOU MEAN? DO YOU WANT TO KILL THE PSYCHIC?'" | Facing p. 212 |
| "'BUT, TELL ME, HOW DID THE CHANGE COME? WHAT BEGAN TO HAPPEN?'" | Facing p. 276 |
| "THE GIRL'S EYES WERE OPENING AS FROM NATURAL SLUMBER" | Facing p. 308 |
| "'YOU NEED NOT SPEAK—JUST PUT YOUR HAND IN MINE AND I WILL UNDERSTAND'" | Facing p. 436 |
BOOK I
THE CHARACTERS CONCERNED
| Those in the Light | Viola Lambert, the subject Mrs. Lambert, her mother Jos. Lambert, her step-father Anthony Clarke, her pastor Dr. Britt, her physician Morton Serviss, her lover Kate Rice, her friend Dr. Weissmann, her investigator Simeon Pratt, her patron |
| Those in the Dark | Waldron, her father McLeod, her "control" Waltie, her poltergeist Jennie Pratt, Pratt's eldest daughter Mrs. Pratt, "Loggy," and others dimly felt |
THE TYRANNY OF THE DARK
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THE SETTING
The village of Colorow is enclosed by a colossal amphitheatre of dove-gray stone, in whose niches wind-warped pines stand like spectators silent and waiting. Six thousand feet above the valley floor green and orange slopes run to the edges of perennial ice-fields, while farther away, and peering above these almost inaccessible defences, like tents of besieging Titans, rise three great mountains gleaming with snow and thunderous with storms. Altogether a stage worthy of some colossal drama rather than the calm slumber of a forgotten hamlet.
The railway enters the valley from the south by sinuously following the windings of a rushing, foam-white stream, and for many miles the engines cautiously feel their way among stupendous walls, passing haltingly СКАЧАТЬ