Showing results for "The Manor" in Literary Fiction

In this first part of her Gothic mystery trillogy, best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates introduces Xavier Kilgarvan, a romantic hero and amateur detective. He must discover who has murdered an innocent babe while it slept in his mother’s arms. This turn-of-the-century tale of monstrous deeds and heart-stopping suspense will leave you eagerly looking for the next Kilgarvan case.

Thorne Manor and other bizarre tales takes you on a journey through madness with haunted people and places. The listener enters a reality where the world only appears normal -- underlying is a dark world of occult influence, dangerous beliefs, and fearsome energies. These 7 thrilling tales appear in this collection: Thorne Manor: Meet Heather, a woman trying to separate herself from an emotionally abusive ex-husband. While pursuing her dream of opening a business, she finds herself in an old, abandoned mansion that houses a sinister secret.

Orphaned young and raised with chilly indifference at an all-boys boarding school, Bront Ellis has grown up stifled by rigid rules and social norms, forbidden from expressing his gender identity. His beloved novels and period films lend an escapeuntil a position as a live-in tutor provides him...

Auf einer der windumtosten Faröer-Inseln fassen Har und Manor eine tiefe Zuneigung zueinander, die auch über den Tod hinaus noch fortbesteht...

1971. Efter en brand flytter mrs. Harrington med sine to børn og hushjælp på landet for at komme sig. Skovene omkring Foxcote Manor er dog ikke så fredfyldte, som de umiddelbart ser ud. Da de finder et spædbarn, efterladt på en træstub, beslutter de sig for at tage barnet til sig, men da et lig efterfølgende bliver fundet i nærheden, knuses deres drøm om at forblive en samlet familie.

When her Maltese love affair turns sour, Lara McDonald returns to her quiet Scottish hometown of Fairview, heartbroken yet determined. Instead of looking for another PR position, she decides to follow her dream of baking. She impulsively takes the first job offered and finds herself working for local dragon Kitty Walker in her tearoom True Brew. Lara's life is full of surprises, however, not the least being an unlikely friendship forged with one of Kitty's elderly customers, the Laird Hugo Carmichael.

Diane Allen invites you into the heart of Yorkshire with her historical saga, Daughter of the Dales, the stirring conclusion to the Windfell Manor Trilogy. Upon the passing of matriarch Charlotte Atkinson, her daughter Isabelle courageously assumes the role of caretaker for the family's...

Willard Manor is the story of a fictional house built in 1840 and the Willard family, who called it home for 170 years. A young couple, Shelley and Tony Maguire, buy the vacant, rundown house and begin to renovate it. During the renovation process, the little treasures they find within its walls help them piece together the history of the house and its former occupants, from the Civil War to Woodstock and beyond.

Mord in der Bibliothek - Sally und Johnny ermitteln. Zwischen den sonnenverbrannten Hügeln der englischen Countryside erstreckt sich das Landgut der Familie Thaxton. Kaum ist das Buchhändlerpaar Sally und Johnny auf Westwater Manor angekommen, entpuppen sich die seltenen Erstausgaben, die die Bibliothek der Thaxtons auszeichnen, als fragwürdige Fälschungen. Zudem wird der Gutsherr Sir Mark vor den Augen der Gäste in hitzige Debatten verwickelt. Denn zum Leidwesen seiner Nachbarn hat er eine große Farm errichtet und den nebenliegenden Fluss durch einen Damm aufgestaut.

Tracking Pure Evil — a podcast dedicated to the spooky things that go bump in the night — have put together a team. A team with one sole purpose; to increase their viewership by staying in the truly terrifying Redburn Manor. With over 200 years of bad luck, death, murder, suicides, accidents and absolute terror, they’ve found the perfect place… or so they think.

"The Knock at the Manor Gate" is a short story by Franz Kafka. The short story illustrates many important themes in Kafka's works. The narrator details a ride with his sister on the way towards home. His sister playfully knocks on the door of a large house. This knock proves to have grave consequences. The owner is a person of great power and sends troops after the two of them. The narrator describes the tale as one of warning, that small actions can have big consequences in life, as he is about to be tortured.