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The House of Dead Maids

A Chilling Prelude to "Wuthering Heights"

Clare B. Dunkle
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Pages
160
Year
2010
Language
English

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Young Tabby Aykroyd has been brought to the dusty mansion of Seldom House to be nursemaid to a foundling boy. He is a savage little creature, but the Yorkshire moors harbor far worse, as Tabby soon discovers. Why do scores of dead maids and masters haunt Seldom House with a jealous devotion that extends beyond the grave?

As Tabby struggles to escape the evil forces rising out of the land, she watches her young charge choose a different path. Long before he reaches the old farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, the boy who will become Heathcliff has doomed himself and any who try to befriend him.

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"Dark and beautiful, literary and lovely. . . . Worthy of sitting on a shelf next to Wuthering Heights."
Melissa Marr, author of Wicked Lovely
"This is literature. As such, Dunkle leaves no literary allusion untouched, no symbolic leaf unturned, in her quest to reveal the origins of Heathcliff and his unearthly yearning for Catherine Earnshaw-Linton."
San Antonio Express-News
"[A]n intriguing, enthralling prequel . . . beautifully written and compelling . . . Tabby's tale will carry you along to its chilling end."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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