The Haunted Cavern: A Caledonian Tale Gothic Classics Paperback 1939140633 9781939140630 John Palmer

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• Format: Paperback
• Author: John Palmer
• ISBN10: 1939140633
• ISBN13: 9781939140630

Young Eldred wants nothing more than to marry his beloved Jane. But Janes father, the cruel Sir James Wallace, has other plans, intending to wed her to the fierce chieftain Donald instead. Donald, jealous of his rival, has Eldred seized and imprisoned in the dungeons of a haunted cavern, where a skeleton, a rusty dagger, and a mouldering manuscript will uncover long-hidden, deadly secrets and reveal the mysterious fate of Eldreds father, Lord Glencairn!

The Haunted Cavern 1795 was the first novel by John Palmer, Jun. 1776-1809 , who published it at age nineteen. A 'tale of shrieking spectres and bloody murders' The Critical Review featuring 'gloomy caverns, dismal dungeons, ghastly skeletons, pale ghosts, fierce combats, [and] horrid murders' The Analytical Review , Palmers novel is an entertaining example of the type of Gothic fiction that flourished in the wake of Ann Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho 1794 . This new edition, the first in two centuries, includes a new introduction by Joel T. Terranova, seven contemporary reviews of the novel, a facsimile of the original title page, and a reproduction of the frontispiece from the scarce New York edition of 1796.