Shadow Of The Unseen, The Barry Pain & James Blyth

Shadow Of The Unseen, The Barry Pain & James Blyth

Author: Barry Pain & James Blyth

Year: 1907

The Shadow of the Unseen is a story about a young woman who is doomed to death when she consorts with the ghost of one of her ancestors, who was a witch. This story begins with Planchette and ends with a terrible witch who lives in time East country, accompanied by a familiar in the shape of an abominable old heegent called Bel.' Though the modern part of the story is not specially interesting or original, the accounts of the Tower House and of the witch Judith Jennie are decidedly eerie. Judith's incantation strikes a weird note. " The maid and the witch dance hand in hand When the Black Man comes from the mash to land. Sister is else; and sister am I, And one must lire, an' Vother must die— The ch'ice is the Maaster's. She or I?" It is difficult to believe that the idiot boy, Job Secret, would have disliked his patroness and become infatuated with the beautiful Linda. Lovers of the marvellous, especially of the marvellous carefully arranged so as not unduly to strain their credulity, will enjoy this book.