| The Grove of Ashtaroth Contributor(s): Buchan, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1981195858 ISBN-13: 9781981195855 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Gothic - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.13 lbs) 32 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We were sitting around the camp fire, some thirty miles north of a place called Taqui, when Lawson announced his intention of finding a home. He had spoken little the last day or two, and I had guessed that he had struck a vein of private reflection. I thought it might be a new mine or irrigation scheme, and I was surprised to find that it was a country house. 'I don't think I shall go back to England, ' he said, kicking a sputtering log into place. 'I don't see why I should. For business purposes I am far more useful to the firm in South Africa than in Throgmorton Street. I have no relations left except a third cousin, and I have never cared a rush for living in town. That beastly house of mine in Hill Street will fetch what I gave for it, -Isaacson cabled about it the other day, offering for furniture and all. I don't want to go into Parliament, and I hate shooting little birds and tame deer |
