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Studies in Love and Terror
It is an excellent horror book for individuals who are going to overcome horror.
299 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1913
About the author
Marie Belloc Lowndes
243 books71 followersMarie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, née Belloc (5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), was a prolific English novelist.
Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Two of her works were adapted for the screen.
Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes. Her younger brother was Hilaire Belloc, whom she wrote of in her last work, The Young Hilaire Belloc (published posthumously in 1956). Her paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Joseph Priestley. In 1896, she married Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes (1868–1940). Her mother died in 1925, 53 years after her father.
She published a biography, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales: An Account of His Career, in 1898. From then on, she published novels, reminiscences, and plays at the rate of one per year until 1946. In the memoir, I, too, Have Lived in Arcadia (1942), she told the story of her mother's life, compiled largely from old family letters and her own memories of her early life in France. A second autobiography Where love and friendship dwelt, appeared posthumously in 1948.
She died 14 November 1947 at the home of her elder daughter, Countess Iddesleigh (wife of the third Earl) in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, and was interred in France, in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Versailles, where she spent her youth.
(from Wikipedia)
Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Two of her works were adapted for the screen.
Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes. Her younger brother was Hilaire Belloc, whom she wrote of in her last work, The Young Hilaire Belloc (published posthumously in 1956). Her paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Joseph Priestley. In 1896, she married Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes (1868–1940). Her mother died in 1925, 53 years after her father.
She published a biography, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales: An Account of His Career, in 1898. From then on, she published novels, reminiscences, and plays at the rate of one per year until 1946. In the memoir, I, too, Have Lived in Arcadia (1942), she told the story of her mother's life, compiled largely from old family letters and her own memories of her early life in France. A second autobiography Where love and friendship dwelt, appeared posthumously in 1948.
She died 14 November 1947 at the home of her elder daughter, Countess Iddesleigh (wife of the third Earl) in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, and was interred in France, in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Versailles, where she spent her youth.
(from Wikipedia)
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December 3, 2019
Belloc Lowndes liked to call her short story collections 'studies'. I suppose it sounds impressive in a forensic sense, as though she were putting the psychological substance of her characters under the knife, or something like that. Having just read her studies in wives, now for her 'Studies in Love and Terror'.
'Price of Admiralty' takes the real-life tragedy of the French submarine the Lutin, which sunk in Oct 1906, and imagines a similar catastrophe while adding a fraught love triangle involving a starchy town mayor, his younger wife and the submarine captain. The wife and the captain are on the sunken sub with a limited amount of oxygen, however much of the story follows the husband as he struggles with the notion that his "correct" wife may be unfaithful to him. The possible scandal concerns him more than his wife's survival.
In 'The Child' a man about to be married comes to face to face with his illegitimate son for the first time, the issue of an affair he had with his friend's wife years before. The child is on his deathbed. Up next is 'St. Catherine's Eve' , another love triangle set in the 1830's in which the husband, a madman, has a morbid hatred of trains, which he calls "the puffing devil." This was almost a horror story.
'The Woman from Purgatory' sees a wife who has discovered that her husband is having an affair contemplate having one of her own. The suicide of a friend who ran off with a married man gives her pause for thought. Up last is 'Why They Married', a genuine love story. Opposites finally attract after their ferry across the English Channel comes a cropper in the fog.
More than anything these stories are studies in propriety, renunciation, and a few great examples of the social folly which used to condone an aging bachelor taking a young pretty girl for a wife. One of the stories contained a severed head but terror was generally at a premium.
'Price of Admiralty' takes the real-life tragedy of the French submarine the Lutin, which sunk in Oct 1906, and imagines a similar catastrophe while adding a fraught love triangle involving a starchy town mayor, his younger wife and the submarine captain. The wife and the captain are on the sunken sub with a limited amount of oxygen, however much of the story follows the husband as he struggles with the notion that his "correct" wife may be unfaithful to him. The possible scandal concerns him more than his wife's survival.
In 'The Child' a man about to be married comes to face to face with his illegitimate son for the first time, the issue of an affair he had with his friend's wife years before. The child is on his deathbed. Up next is 'St. Catherine's Eve' , another love triangle set in the 1830's in which the husband, a madman, has a morbid hatred of trains, which he calls "the puffing devil." This was almost a horror story.
'The Woman from Purgatory' sees a wife who has discovered that her husband is having an affair contemplate having one of her own. The suicide of a friend who ran off with a married man gives her pause for thought. Up last is 'Why They Married', a genuine love story. Opposites finally attract after their ferry across the English Channel comes a cropper in the fog.
More than anything these stories are studies in propriety, renunciation, and a few great examples of the social folly which used to condone an aging bachelor taking a young pretty girl for a wife. One of the stories contained a severed head but terror was generally at a premium.
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