The Living One: A Gothic Thriller

✍ Scribed by Gannett, Lewis

• Book ID: 109014171
• Publisher: Plume
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 428 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

16 year old California teenager Torrance Spoor showed the bizarre letter from his long absent father, the Baron Malcolm Spoor, only to his best friend, Ricky. It rambled on about hounds from hell and sepia roses, a curse of madness...and an invitation for Torrance to live with the baron at his seaside New England mansion. But what is waiting for Torrance is worse than his wildest imaginings. A Gothic house filled with secrets and locked rooms. His father's muscular bodyguard/slave Pip. Twelve dogs with red eyes and a taste for blood. A room full of sepia roses...and The Living One, watching, waiting, and wanting Torrance with a shuddering intensity more terrifying than death.

Lewis Gannett�s suspenseful blend of gothic thriller and gay erotica is about ESP, the supernatural, body thievery, love, and lust�straight, gay, and forms yet unnamed. Vivid, mythic, sensual, it has everything; centuries-old cures, voyeuristic sex, family sins, murderous tensions between fathers and sons, and things that go bump in the night.

�FASCINATING ... A CEREBRAL JOURNEY INTO A GOTHIC NO MAN'S LAND... REWARDS ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN BEING CHALLENGED AND DELICIOUSLY FRIGHTENED AT THE SAME TIME."

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