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The Ghost of Guir House
Charles Willing Beale
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Do you think you understand ghosts? Now you will.
Paul Henley, seemingly summoned to a mysterious rural Virginia mansion from his home in New York, finds himself as a guest at a remote, dilapidated colonial house with a host and a hostess every bit as mysterious as the house itself. Might Dorothy, his hostess, somehow be implicated in the hideous crime which he came to know took place in the hidden depths of Guir House some years ago? He hardly thought so, she seemed so innocent. And yet ....
Do you think you understand ghosts? Now you will.
Paul Henley, seemingly summoned to a mysterious rural Virginia mansion from his home in New York, finds himself as a guest at a remote, dilapidated colonial house with a host and a hostess every bit as mysterious as the house itself. Might Dorothy, his hostess, somehow be implicated in the hideous crime which he came to know took place in the hidden depths of Guir House some years ago? He hardly thought so, she seemed so innocent. And yet ....
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"I hope you will not think that all Virginians are as inhospitable as we appear to be, Mr. Henley," she exclaimed, with a graciousness that was quite bewitching.
"I'm sure," said Henley, "that I have never been treated with greater consideration by any one; my room is simply perfect!"
"In its way, yes; but its way is that of a century past. But what I was referring to in the matter of special negligence was the time we have kept you from food."
"Do you know," Paul replied, "that I have been so absorbed with the many strange things I have seen since my arrival that I have scarcely had time to think of food?"
"But I told you that you would be expected to have a good appetite."
"And I have. In fact, when I . . . Read More
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As other reviewers have stated, it started off well and then fell apart halfway through. The execution of the twist was long winded and resulted in tedium by the time the main character finally figured out what was happening. I am all for a good ghost story but the main character drove me nuts with
La traducción de este libro/cuento de 1897 es "El fantasma de la casa/mansión Guir" de Charles Willing Beale, era uno de los 100 libros sobre casas y fantasmas que encontré en un artículo por ahí, y como me gustan las listas y los fantasmas, aquí estamos
I listened to this as a Libravox recording. At first I was intrigued by the unfolding ghost story. What could have been an interesting love story soon got mired down in philosophy, social commentary, and what seemed like the author's idea of utopia. Near the end I was trying to guess how this romanc