This Land Turns Evil Slowly

by Mary Linn Roby

Genres: Gothic

212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1971

About the author

aka Elisabeth Welles, Georgina Grey, Mary Wilson, Pamela D'Arcy, Pauline Pryor, Valerie Bradstreet.

Mary is the author of fifty-two Gothic, romances, regencies, and mystery novels. Mary also teaches English literature, creative writing, and rhetoric. Her husband is an English professor, a biographer, editor, and mystery writer.

Mary loves tennis, reading, and traveling, and her special editing interests lie in the field of fiction and memoirs. She enhances the creative talents of clients by giving their manuscripts a sympathetic reading, an in-depth critique, and meticulous editing.

Reviews

[Marilyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

The title should have been 'This Land Turns Evil VERY Slowly'. Dull as dirt with not one likeable character. The whole book was a bunch of angry, vengeful people arguing about something that occurred when they were kids and trying to decide who was to blame for it. Reading it felt like one long therapy session. I just couldn't finish it and I normally never quit a book once I've started but I couldn't take this one anymore. I went ahead and skipped to the end and seeing how it concluded made me thankful I didn't bother.

[Sophie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fairly odd story about some seriously damaged people. Like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? damaged. It made for a strange read that left me with some questions. Like, who is Palmer? Presumably the heroine's psychoanalyst or therapist or some such, but her thoughts about him (his only presence in the story) seemed much chummier than that. And was David actually engaged to Joanne? Or anywhere close? Because if so, he certainly moved on from her death without much difficulty. But at least the heroine has the comfort of knowing he doesn't care if she's a potential murderer or not. So there's that.