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The Worshipper of the Image
Richard Le Gallienne
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"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask in an antique shop and soon realizes it resembles his wife Beatrice. The death mask, Antony names "Silencieux," becomes an all consuming fetish and drives Antony from his once beloved family. Silencieux also drives Antony quite insane as he is willing to give his soul to be with her
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask in an antique shop and soon realizes it resembles his wife Beatrice. The death mask, Antony names "Silencieux," becomes an all consuming fetish and drives Antony from his once beloved family. Silencieux also drives Antony quite insane as he is willing to give his soul to be with her
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These thoughts gave him a new desire to look again at the image. He felt that in some way she would be changed, and he hastened up the wood in a strange expectancy.
CHAPTER IV AT THE RISING OF THE MOON
But a week or two more, and Beatrice's prophecy had progressed so far towards fulfilment, that Antony was going about the woods and the moors saying over to himself the name he had found for the Image, as we saw in the first chapter; and his love for Silencieux, begun more or less as a determined self-illusion, grew more and more of a reality. Every day new life welled into Silencieux's face, as every day life ebbed from the face of Beatrice, surely foreseeing the coming on of what she had feared. For the love he gave to Silencieux Antony must take away from Beatrice, from whom as the days went by he grew mor. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
En släkting till ”Dorian Grays porträtt” som i sitt nätta format blir lite mer pang på rödbetan än den betydligt mer omtalade volymen. Egentligen uteblir alla överraskningar men ett bildande förord och en gedigen notapparat gör det till en bildande läsestund.
Det är ett speciellt språkbruk i den här boken (men så är den skriven 1900) det är målande och nästan åt det poetiska hållet stundtals. I normala fall är det inget som tilltalar mig, men den här har något som gör att man fängslas bland raderna av ord, förtrollande, precis som karaktären i boken är a
A book for poets.
I read the 1900, 1st edition version. The wording is sublime and I hope that the reproductions do not make any changes to the sentence structure.
I have been arguing for some time that there is much more of a connection between horror and science than is generally appreciated. In fact, I explore this relationship in detail on my Tumblr, Science Chamber of Horrors. Occasionally, however, I find a book like Richard Le Gallienne‘s 1899 The Worsh