The Clarrington Heritage: A Gothic Tale of Terror

by Ardath Mayhar

When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington, and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she's ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the third floor--but never told why! As the family members begin perishing in odd circumstances, Marise must try to uncover the secret of...The Clarrington Heritage.

Genres: Ebooks

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar was an American writer and poet. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I.

She had numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre, and won many awards for poetry. In 2008 she was honored by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as an Author Emeritus.

Mayhar wrote over 60 books ranging from science fiction to horror to young adult to historical to westerns; with some work under the pseudonyms Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, John Killdeer, Ardath P. Mayhar. Joe R. Lansdale wrote simply: "Ardath Mayhar writes damn fine books!"

Reviews

[Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not bad but not great either. It's suspenseful and mysterious, there's madness and murder, but I found myself pissed off at some of the characters. It's like when you're watching a horror movie and everyone is an idiot for the purpose of the horror, and it sort of just makes you mad. That's what a lot of this book was like.

I'll say it was like a 3.1 since I was still engaged, but it left a lot to be desired.

[Shaun Gregory · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad read, but nothing special. I had had higher hopes that this would be gripping and suspenseful etc. Sadly I found it couldn’t make its mind up to where it was going. I actually gave up twice. I finished it and felt nothing, which is unlike me. Some readers may love this but……