John Harwood es autor de novelas de suspense gótico victoriano. Su obra abarca también biografías, poesía, periodismo político e historia literaria. La prosa de Harwood se caracteriza por su profunda atmósfera y la perspicaz exploración de las complejidades psicológicas. Sus narrativas a menudo profundizan en los misterios del pasado y el peso de las emociones ocultas.
A young woman wakes in a strange bed. Doctor Maynard Straker steps into the room, and speaks.`Have no fear, Miss Ashton.She is Miss Georgina Ferrars, and she can prove it. But when Dr Straker sends a telegram to her uncle in London, the reply is swift:GEORGINA FERRARS HERE STOP YOUR PATIENT MUST BE IMPOSTER STOPMadness?
A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance Langton takes her to a seance. Perhaps they will find comfort from beyond the grave. But that seance has tragic consequences.
After waking up in a small asylum in England with no memory of the past several weeks, Georgia Ferrars learns that her family believes she is an imposter.
Ein Frauenportrait, dessen Anblick todbringend ist, die Augen einer Porzellanpuppe wie unheimliche Träume erscheinen die Geistergeschichten, die Viola Hatherley um 1900 in London schrieb. Ein Jahrhundert später, gerät der junge Gerard aufs Neue in ihren Bann. Gerard entdeckt ein verlassenes Haus in Hampstead Heath in London. Hier scheinen Violas Schauergeschichten lebendig zu werden. Um das Geheimnis einer großen tragischen Liebe und seiner eigenen Vergangenheit zu enthüllen, muss Gerard die Welt der Geister betreten.