![]() ![]() The book’s authorship is as much a mystery as the progression of the story. ![]() The book “ opens with an unforgettable Gothic scene: a lascivious monk enters the lovely Rosalina’s bedroom at midnight through a secret panel, planning to rape her-but suffers the gruesome loss of his hand when he is caught in the act!” Manfroné or The One Handed Monk - the first novel in the Monster, She Wrote series - is due out in July of this year. ![]() Manfroné or, The One-Handed Monkby Mary Anne Radcliffe In the finest, “Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon,” Bowen uses dramatic irony - the audience knowing more than the characters - to disturb readers with a less than super-natural twist. She writes stellar traditional ghost stories like “The Crown Derby Plate,” but also finds ways to tweak the form in other entries. What makes this collection special is the way Bowen manipulates the familiar form. Throughout her career, Bowen blazed through books, publishing more than 150 under different pen names and in different genres. Marjorie Bowen’s phenomenally titled The Bishop of Hell collects twelve of Bowen’s favorite ghost stories from her enormous catalogue. If you pick up one book from the series, make it Lisa Tuttle’s The Dead Hours of Night. ![]() All of her stories evolve in unexpected ways, managing to be both hilarious and horrifying at different times. The way “Born Dead” and “My Pathology” close out will rattle around your brain for months. ![]()
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