![]() ![]() Thanks to Matthew from Urbane Publications for sending me a review copy of this elegantly Gothic tale, one that feels familiar in all the right places – in a good way – but also has a fresh sort of rampant fiendishness running through it that kept me engrossed right to the end, with its thoroughly entertaining denouement. The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb is a gothic terror of the highest order, delivering a dream-like and hallucinatory reading experience that promises to reveal secrets both disturbing and astonishing. ![]() ![]() It is not long before mystery, intrigue and murder follow gleefully in his wake. A dreadful act begets terrible secrets, and thirteen years later the boy Alastair Stubb begins to lose his identity. Then she falls pregnant again, but this time by the hypnotic coercion and wicked ravishment of Theodore. Theodore’s daughter-in-law Eleanor returned from the sanatorium two months before is a haunted figure, believing that her stillborn child Alastair lives and hides in the shadows. But Theodore is also a master hypnotist, holding the household in thrall to his every whim. A renowned entomologist, he is often within the attic adding another exotic specimen to his extensive collection of insects. ![]() The turn of the last century and Theodore Stubbs’ manor house resides in the quirky village of Muchmarsh. ![]()
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