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I’m over half-way through my Audible edition. I’m neither enchanted nor interested. I can’t grab hold of a character I wish to follow so therefore my interest in this book is waning. Usually I can easily accept novels from earlier centuries, but this one - important to the development of the gothic genre - I am forcing myself to finish.

I am reading this book for the 2nd time, this time from an Audible edition. It is easier to follow as the careful male narrator expresses particular dismay and shock as the personalities appear. His anxieties, the doctor, clearly increase the discomfort of the reader and add a sense of fear in me I did not have in the Kindle edition.

The Audible in this horror genre makes it “present tense” to the reader.

After Lost Horizon, this novel was a real disappointment for me. It had no plot other than the passage of time and a superficial recounting of one man’s living through 2 World Wars. It was sentimental, which I suppose was its primary charm. But even as a short novel, I couldn’t finish it quickly enough.