![]() ![]() Each novel has an underlying connecting story that recurs throughout the narrative resulting in a surprise climax. The book has an amazingly similar structure and skeletal plot to The Savant's Vendetta in which a sinister collector of human skulls also tells a variety of stories to a house guest. Each one has its own peculiar story and over the coming nights Hogarth proceeds to relate several stories. ![]() While recuperating Hogarth shows Kent his collection of macabre objects and relics he has amassed over several decades. Kent now injured with a broken ankle is rescued by Hogarth's servant Hoadley and taken to the house where he soon becomes both guest and invalid. En route he encounters a raging snowstorm, loses control of his car and crashes not far from Hogarth's home. Taylor Kent, writer of thrillers, is travelling by car to deliver a package to Charles Hogarth. Austin Freeman's The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta (which this book markedly resembles) The Master of the Macabre (1947) is another collection of supernatural and macabre tales that take the form of a quasi-novel. ![]() In the tradition of works like Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors and R. ![]()
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