![]() The monk, after breaking his vows, impregnated Celia who was walled up alive by a demented and evil woman. Akananda, attuned to verities beyond the veil, soon realizes that this Celia has been slipping in and out of the life of poor Celia de Bohun, who in the reigns of Edward IV, Mary and Elizabeth, progressively succumbed to a doomed passion for the upright Brother Stephen. And Sir Richard, cold and hostile, approaches near-madness. Celia, in the midst of a weekend house party and Tudor ruins, hears disembodied voices speaking in accents wild, feels an unexplained terror and, suddenly suffocating, winds up in a hospital near death. From the beginning, rum emanations undermine the apparently serene marriage of Celia Marsden, American wife of Sir Richard on their ancient Sussex estate. ![]() ![]() A soup to nuts Gothic long enough to last through the vernal equinox. ![]()
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