Un hábito sangriento

by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson, Mario Crespo (Translator)

Londres, primeros meses del siglo XX. Cuando John Kemp, un joven y escéptico abogado, conoce en un tren a un fraile dominico de aspecto apacible, no puede imaginar que bajo el hábito blanco y negro se esconde un implacable cazador de vampiros. Pronto necesitará de su una serie de sanguinarios asesinatos sacude el Londres victoriano y obliga a la improbable pareja a combatir juntos la amenaza de los no muertos.Aderezada con una dosis generosa de reflexión teológica y de humor, esta novela de terror se aproxima al abismo del mal sin mojigaterías y con una visión netamente católica. La trama, en un curioso juego literario, dialoga con el Drácula de Bram Stoker y, siempre desde la admiración, se atreve a corregir algunos de sus planteamientos.“Una mezcla entre Drácula y El exorcista, escrita con el talento literario de la primera y la sensibilidad católica de la segunda”. Joseph Pearce, escritor y periodista.“Nicholson nos introduce en el lenguaje, los modales y los escenarios del Londres victoriano sin esfuerzo y de forma muy convincente, gracias a una profunda investigación y a un magistral dominio de la escritura”. Karen Ullo, novelista“Me encantó el estilo de la autora [...] En ningún momento subraya, predica ni pretende educar”. Dwight Longenecker, sacerdote y escritor.

458 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2019

About the author

In addition to scholarly pursuits, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson occasionally strays into fiction, including her epistolary novella, The Letters of Magdalen Montague, and her Gothic novels, A Bloody Habit, Brother Wolf, and Wake of Malice. For the sake of her children, who eagerly requested a book they too could read, she wrote The Hound of the Lord, a children’s biography of St. Dominic (Ignatius Press, 2023). She is a Lay Dominican, which may partly explain the frequency with which OPs gaily trip through her writing. (She also formally apologized to the friars for throwing them into the Gothic atmosphere. Honestly, though, it makes a lot of sense.)

A former assistant executive editor for Dappled Things, she is assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review (StAR), as well as the editor of several Ignatius Critical Editions of the classics and has collaborated with other editors to provide footnotes for numerous other works. Her work has appeared in the National Catholic Register and Touchstone, as well as with First Things and The Catholic Thing.

The resident Victorian literature instructor at Homeschool Connections, Eleanor, with her husband, homeschools their five children. By night, she reads the Victorians, writes Gothic novels, and cares for small children.

Fun facts: She has an extremely low tolerance for scary books and movies. She’s still petrified of “The Speckled Band”, and won’t sleep in a room where the bed is under a vent.