![]() ![]() ![]() While I wouldn't say it's in my top ten of haunted house novels, it definitely kept me turning pages, making it one I'd recommend. ![]() While it can become a bit boggy interrupting the flow, overall, it's a good read, another book that will probably be appreciated mainly by niche readers or people interested in discovering previously-unknown authors of the supernatural. Family relationships are put in the spotlight, as is the age-old debate between faith and reason, with the narrator of this tale often changing his own ideas and beliefs as he sifts through the past to find answers. Historian George Grantley agrees to find a property for his school-friend Kit. While The Scarlet Boy is an unsettling, creepy ghost story and a good haunted house tale, there's a lot more going on here than just a simple haunting. Arthur Calder-Marshalls unusual haunted house story The Scarlet Boy (1961) is a rediscovered supernatural classic whose slow-building dread mounts inexorably. 'A variation on the theme of The Turn of the Screw in the manner of Graham Greene with an olive from The Cocktail Party and a dash of Dashiell Hammett.' Cyril ConnollyFirst published in 1961, The Scarlet Boy saw the versatile Arthur Calder-Marshall venturing into gothic terrain with a study in the paranormal. Aside from the fact that there's a bit of extraneous stuff in this novel (in my opinion) that sort of detracts from the eerieness of the main story line, it turned out to be a good read.įor a small bit of plot without spoilers, I've posted about this book in my reading journal here, or just keep reading. Always on the lookout for new-to-me, obscure authors, I came across a reference to this book in some other book, and decided to give it a try. ![]()
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