β Scribed by Geoffrey Household
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this remarkable thriller, a British estate owner with psychic powers senses he's being hunted on his own land by a bloodthirsty beast
Alfgif Hollaston, a cultured English gentleman and painter, has returned to his childhood home in remote Somerset following the death of his father. In this confusing time, he is grateful for the nascent friendship and support of Paddy Gadsden, an amiable saddler on the family estate. But only days after his arrival, Alfgil is shocked to learn Paddy has been violently murdered. After assuming ownership of Paddy's beloved pet, a tame and playful polecat named Meg, Hollastonβwho is more attuned to the mystical than someβbegins receiving strange psychic sensations. An instinctual, animalistic sense of impending danger is telling him to flee this place as fast and as far as possible. Before he knows it, this man of class and breeding finds himself abruptly and frighteningly transformed into that most primal of creatures:...
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