{"title":"Ernest George Henham","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"tenebrae-paperback","title":"Tenebrae - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of \u003ci\u003eTenebrae\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits a decaying, desolate mansion in the remote and wild countryside with his younger brother and their mad old uncle, driven insane by abuse of opium and alcohol. This nameless narrator is a morbid young man who passes most of his time in a room painted all black, poring over arcane manuscripts dealing with the mysteries of death, while sipping garishly coloured liquors brewed by his uncle or cups of coffee flavoured with arsenic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When he falls in love with a neighbour, he looks forward to marrying her and trading his life of despondency for one of joy. Perhaps unsurprisingly, though, she finds him rather unpleasant company and instead falls in love with his brother. Driven to murderous jealousy, he resolves upon a brutal crime. But after the consummation of his terrible act, he finds himself haunted by a huge, monstrous spider. Is it a delusion brought on by incipient madness? the reincarnated soul of his murdered victim, returned for vengeance? or does it foretell a fate even more horrifying than can be possibly imagined? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published in 1898, at the end of a decade in which English writers explored the literary possibilities of the Gothic with such characters as Dorian Gray, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, and The Beetle, Ernest G. Henham's weird horror novel \u003ci\u003eTenebrae\u003c\/i\u003e is reminiscent of the works of Poe. Perhaps unequalled in its extreme darkness and gloom, and yet at times grimly, though possibly unintentionally, hilarious, \u003ci\u003eTenebrae\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of the strangest productions of this fertile literary period. This newly typeset edition includes the unabridged text of the first edition, as well as an introduction and notes by Gerald Monsman, the foremost scholar of Henham (1870-1946), who later published under the name John Trevena. Also featured is a reproduction of the cover of the incredibly scarce first edition.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576903205087,"sku":"9781934555293","price":34.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RpPfNnEl4Z9781934555293.webp?v=1790387612"},{"product_id":"the-feast-of-bacchus-paperback","title":"The Feast of Bacchus - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[A] book of strange adventures, of ghostly, nightmare visions; you will want to read it at a sitting, but do not begin it at bedtime unless your nerves are in a thoroughly healthy condition\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Q]uite a remarkable book . . . Mr. Henham has the exceptional gift of lending an atmosphere of reality to the fantastic. . . . Some people will find the book enthralling: others may pronounce it quite mad, but everyone must recognise its undeniable cleverness.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Outlook\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This strange story . . . has a tropical luxuriance of imagination quite unusual in works by English writers . . . an atmosphere of eeriness and mystery strongly reminiscent of Poe. The plot is clever, the characters well-drawn; but it is in his power to create an atmosphere of vagueness and suggestion that Mr. Henham may be said to possess something very like genius.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Publisher\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the remote hamlet of Thorlund stands the manor house known as the Strath, an eerie place that exercises a mysterious hold over anyone who enters it. The site of tragedy in 1742 when its owner, Sir John Hooper, turned highwayman and met his death on the gallows, the Strath has remained vacant for over a century, a pair of hideous masks its only occupants. When the novel opens, the Strath's new owner has just arrived from America to take possession of the house, but he is soon found horribly murdered. Now the next heir, young Charles Conway, has come to the Strath, and the house begins to work its baneful influence on him and on the local residents, causing them to behave in bizarre and violent ways. What is the connection between the sinister power of the Strath and the ghastly masks that adorn the wall? And once Conway and the others are drawn within the evil place, can any of them possibly survive? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of England's lost novelists, a writer of startling abilities\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e), Ernest G. Henham, who also published under the pseudonym \"John Trevena,\" was the author of bizarre Gothic fantasies such as \u003ci\u003eTenebrae\u003c\/i\u003e (1898) and \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Bacchus\u003c\/i\u003e (1907), as well as a number of unusual and highly imaginative works set in Dartmoor. This first-ever republication of Henham's novel includes a new introduction by Gerald Monsman.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576910446815,"sku":"9781941147078","price":34.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gbTgnAF6-9781941147078.webp?v=1790387627"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ernest-george-henham.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}