![]() ![]() Besides the lady of the estate, the frail Transylvanian countess, Ana Czerner, and her dour, jealousy inclined housekeeper, Sari, one encounters in these pages the blubber-mouthed giant gardener, who is the village idiot the brilliant but eccentric scientist, Dr. Told in alternating third person and first person, combining straight story-telling with excerpts from the young doctor's journal, the manner in which the eerie tale unfolds gives the reader variety.Īll sorts of weird characters abound in this book. ![]() ![]() Do you like vampire stories? Then by all means read Dreadful Hollow, which is not, as one might think, a treatise of F(r)an Laney's ribald laughter, but an eerie tale of vampirism in a sleepy little English village.Īn ill-assorted household from far-off Transylvania, transplanted in a creaking manor house on a wooded estate, a young and innocent maiden on her first position as companion to the lady of that household, and the youthful village doctor, furnish the mystery and romance of this vampiric yarn. ![]()
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