Old House of Fear

Old House of FearA founding father of the American conservative movement, Russell Kirk (1918 1994) was also a renowned and bestselling writer of fiction. Kirk's focus was the ghost story, or "ghostly tale" a "decayed art" of which he considered himself a "last remaining master." Old House of Fear, Kirk's first novel, revealed this mastery at work. Its 1961 publication was a sensation, outselling all of Kirk's other books combined, including The Conservative Mind, his

A founding father of the American conservative movement, Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was also a renowned and bestselling writer of fiction. Kirk's focus was the ghost story, or "ghostly tale"--a "decayed art" of which he considered himself a "last remaining master." Old House of Fear, Kirk's first novel, revealed this mastery at work. Its 1961 publication was a sensation, outselling all of Kirk's other books combined, including The Conservative Mind, his iconic study of American conservative thought. A native of upper Michigan, Kirk set Old House of Fear in the haunted isles of the Inner Hebrides, drawing on his time in Scotland as the first American to earn a doctorate of letters from the University of St. Andrews. The story concerns Hugh Logan, an attorney sent by an aging American industrialist to Carnglass to purchase his ancestral island and its castle called the Old House of Fear. On the island, Logan meets Mary MacAskival, a red-haired ing nue and love interest, and the two face off against Dr. Edmund Jackman, a mystic who has the island under his own mysterious control. This new edition features an introduction by James Panero, Executive Editor of The New Criterion.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Criterion Books
Published: 10/29/2019
ISBN: 9780985905286
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.10d