Old House of Fear

Russell Kirk

Mar 2007 · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Attorney Hugh Logan leaves Canada for Scotland to negotiate the purchase of Carnglass Island and the castle Old House of Fear for his employer, Duncan MacAskival. Logan is continually thwarted and threatened on his journey. But no matter how bad his travels, his arrival onto the island brings much worse trouble. Carnglass is under the control of evil genius Dr. Edmund Jackman, a Soviet-educated political revolutionary convinced that Logan is a spy who must die. Will Jackman's plot be thwarted? Will Logan be able to rescue the lovely niece of the noble owner of Old House? Will anyone get off the island alive?

Debuting in the 1960s, Old House of Fear was Russell Kirk's most popular book, selling more than all his other books combined. Yet this Gothic tale is more than just a fascinating work of fiction. As in all of Kirk's stories, a deeper meaning emerges -- in this case, a satirization of Marxism and liberalism -- demonstrating the acute sense of the moral that sets Kirk apart from other genre writers.

About the author

Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was an eminent literary andsocial critic who rose to national prominence in 1953 withthe publication of his book The Conservative Mind.The founding editor of Modern Age and TheUniversity Bookman, he wrote more than thirty books, including his memoirs, The Sword of Imagination(Eerdmans). The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal inMecosta, Michigan, continues his work, hosting seminars, writers, and research scholars at Piety Hill, Kirk'sancestral home. "