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The Tower Room
Was she doomed to become the next helpless sacrifice to a terrifying age old evil?
THORNCROFT
Gloomy, isolated, a mansion whose long history was checkered with legends of witchcraft and deviltry. It was here that wealthy Richard Prine brought his beautiful young bride Jane. And in a house peopled only by Richard’s aged relatives and ghostly memories of others long-dead, Jane soon found herself falling under Thorncroft’s destructive enchantment. Even Richard slowly appeared to change before her eyes at times seeming almost a total stranger.
Cut off from the outside world and suddenly beset by a mysterious illness, Jane had nowhere to turn, nowhere but to the handsome local doctor, Charles Marcher . Yet even Charles could not fully understand the terror which possessed Jane, as an ancient spell of unimaginable evil sought to claim her very soul…
THORNCROFT
Gloomy, isolated, a mansion whose long history was checkered with legends of witchcraft and deviltry. It was here that wealthy Richard Prine brought his beautiful young bride Jane. And in a house peopled only by Richard’s aged relatives and ghostly memories of others long-dead, Jane soon found herself falling under Thorncroft’s destructive enchantment. Even Richard slowly appeared to change before her eyes at times seeming almost a total stranger.
Cut off from the outside world and suddenly beset by a mysterious illness, Jane had nowhere to turn, nowhere but to the handsome local doctor, Charles Marcher . Yet even Charles could not fully understand the terror which possessed Jane, as an ancient spell of unimaginable evil sought to claim her very soul…
- GenresGothic
168 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 5, 1979
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September 8, 2026
Young Jane is whisked off to live in the huge gloomy mansion home of her new husband's family. She soon works out that all is not well - in fact her life is in danger.
All the cliches are here...noises at night, locked rooms, drugged tea, suspicious relatives, a mystery illness, gaslighting. The heroine falls for every trap that is laid for her even though the reader can see them all a mile off. One is a heavy, ugly amulet (called "The Devil's Eye" as if it could any more obvious) that exerts some hold over her, and which her husband insists she wears. I laughed out loud at one section where she gets into bed while forgetting that she's still wearing it, and says to herself "Oh dear, to take this off, I'll have to get out of bed, switch the light on and walk all the way over to my dresser to put it down. Nah, that's too much effort". Message to the author: DO BETTER!
The ending, however, is pretty wild. There's a heavy supernatural emphasis in this one.
All the cliches are here...noises at night, locked rooms, drugged tea, suspicious relatives, a mystery illness, gaslighting. The heroine falls for every trap that is laid for her even though the reader can see them all a mile off. One is a heavy, ugly amulet (called "The Devil's Eye" as if it could any more obvious) that exerts some hold over her, and which her husband insists she wears. I laughed out loud at one section where she gets into bed while forgetting that she's still wearing it, and says to herself "Oh dear, to take this off, I'll have to get out of bed, switch the light on and walk all the way over to my dresser to put it down. Nah, that's too much effort". Message to the author: DO BETTER!
The ending, however, is pretty wild. There's a heavy supernatural emphasis in this one.
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