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ISBN: 978-1-905335-06-0

          
Wylder's Hand

by J Sheridan Le Fanu

What is the truth behind Mark Wylder’s disappearance? A gripping novel by a master of suspense and the macabre

What has happened to Mark Wylder? The heir to a fortune, and engaged to his beautiful and wealthy cousin Dorcas Brandon, why does he disappear just before his wedding, sending letters from all over Europe promising one day to return? What secrets does the sinister yellow-eyed Captain Lake know, and what is his sexual hold over Dorcas? Will the villainous lawyer Josiah Larkin succeed in his intrigues? And what has the ghostly Uncle Lorne witnessed?

The marriage of Mark and Dorcas was to end generations of rivalry between the Wylder and Brandon families and establish a new dynasty at the great old house Brandon Hall. But jealous rivals have other plans, leading to a dramatic climax in which their plots are revealed.

Sheridan Le Fanu was the nineteenth-century master of the macabre and the ghostly, best remembered today for his tale of the lesbian vampire Carmilla. Wylder’s Hand is one of his greatest novels, long unavailable and now revived by Traviata Books.