![]() ![]() While I wouldn't say it's in my top ten of haunted house novels, it definitely kept me turning pages, making it one I'd recommend. Grand Century of the LadyArthur Calder-Marshall, Village-life in Egypt with sketches. While it can become a bit boggy interrupting the flow, overall, it's a good read, another book that will probably be appreciated mainly by niche readers or people interested in discovering previously-unknown authors of the supernatural. Arthur Calder-Marshalls unusual haunted house story The Scarlet Boy (1961) is a rediscovered supernatural classic whose slow-building dread mounts. William Elliot Marshall, Manual for Child Behavior Checklist 4-18. Family relationships are put in the spotlight, as is the age-old debate between faith and reason, with the narrator of this tale often changing his own ideas and beliefs as he sifts through the past to find answers. ![]() ![]() While The Scarlet Boy is an unsettling, creepy ghost story and a good haunted house tale, there's a lot more going on here than just a simple haunting. Aside from the fact that there's a bit of extraneous stuff in this novel (in my opinion) that sort of detracts from the eerieness of the main story line, it turned out to be a good read.įor a small bit of plot without spoilers, I've posted about this book in my reading journal here, or just keep reading. Always on the lookout for new-to-me, obscure authors, I came across a reference to this book in some other book, and decided to give it a try. ![]()
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