The Sin-Eater
Author | : Fiona Macloed |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-08-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 172601505X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781726015059 |
Rating | : 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "The Sin-Eater" is one more collection of Miss Macleod's mystic Runes of the Celts. Like all the others, it has a morbid charm altogether irresistible. It is easy to see that the author's imagination is responsible for much of the magic and mystery of her characters, nurtured though their originals may be upon dreams and a marvelous folklore. No human beings ever lived in a world so fervent with poetry and passion. The atmosphere of the whole is indescribable. Horrors are written of and crimes abound, all softened by the unearthly surroundings till they fail to shock the reader. A study of these weird but undeniably beautiful tales leaves one with an unreal and fantastic dreaminess of the brain that is pleasurably unwholesome. --Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Volume 81