Snippets and sketches from a fictitious book, Rare Myths and Legends, complement the unsettling atmosphere, offering clues to what otherworldly creature readers, and brave Louisa, will face next. Roux (the Asylum series) brings her gothic setting to rich life in this darkly delightful (and frequently gruesome) series opener. Morningside's motives toward his guests are anything but benign and that Lee may be in danger, she is determined to help.

She also finds friendship in Coldthistle's new guest, Lee Brimble, who is there to research his claim to an inheritance. When an old woman approaches Louisa with an offer of employment and a warm bed, she is soon on her way to Coldthistle House, 'a place for the wayward and lost.' There, she meets the strange staff: Poppy, a girl whose voice holds terrible power the tall, enigmatic Chijioke, who has a certain way with the dead and the inscrutable master of the house, Mr. It's 1809 in Malton, England, and Louisa Rose Ditton barely scrapes by telling fortunes in the market. But in this house of distortions and lies, how can Louisa be sure who to trust? He is charismatic and kind, and Louisa knows that it may be up to her to save him from an untimely judgment. They were probably personified curses, but possibly they were originally conceived of as ghosts of the murdered. Louisa begins to fear for a young man named Lee who is not like the other guests. Furies, Greek Erinyes, also called Eumenides, in Greco-Roman mythology, the chthonic goddesses of vengeance. Morningside and his unusual staff are meant to execute their own justice on those who are past being saved. Far from a place of rest, the house is a place of judgment, and Mr. Morningside, is providing much more than lodging for his guests. An all-new creepy fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum.įeaturing stunning interior illustrations from artist Iris Compiet, plus photo-collages that bring the story to chilling life, House of Furies invites readers to a world where the line between monsters and men is ghostly thin.Īfter escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house.īut soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house’s mysterious owner, Mr.

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