Slaver Heap : a gothic novel /
Power, Albert(Solicitor),author.
"It is the Autumn of 1720, and the countryside of Ireland conceals a seething cauldron of discontent and ominous plotting. Aldebaran Matlock, a clerical student, accepts an invitation to a lonely country estate in Carlow. Here he tumbles in hopeless love and becomes reluctant key witness in a trial for murder. Afterwards, Aldebaran's world collapses in disarray as sinister influences lure him to a "deep mire of sin". What is the secret of the Skelochar, the witch-like activities in the Carlow house at dead of night? What signifies the eerie tale of Adonijah Duckwell about an incident in the rebellion of 1642? What is the secret of the black-stone fortress called Slaver Heap? Follow Aldebaran Matlock on a trail of dread, which leads from a Carlow demesne, to trammels of rough justice in a Kilkenny courthouse, melancholy burial in Dublin, a weird bookseller's in Newry, and bloody slaughter on the banks of Lough Neagh, in his quest for terrible revelation on the wave-battered basalt coast of the far north." -- Dust jacket flaps.
Previous edition published by Sarob Press in 2013; this edition published by Obelisk in 2016 has been revised and expanded.
"It is the Autumn of 1720, and the countryside of Ireland conceals a seething cauldron of discontent and ominous plotting. Aldebaran Matlock, a clerical student, accepts an invitation to a lonely country estate in Carlow. Here he tumbles in hopeless love and becomes reluctant key witness in a trial for murder. Afterwards, Aldebaran's world collapses in disarray as sinister influences lure him to a "deep mire of sin". What is the secret of the Skelochar, the witch-like activities in the Carlow house at dead of night? What signifies the eerie tale of Adonijah Duckwell about an incident in the rebellion of 1642? What is the secret of the black-stone fortress called Slaver Heap? Follow Aldebaran Matlock on a trail of dread, which leads from a Carlow demesne, to trammels of rough justice in a Kilkenny courthouse, melancholy burial in Dublin, a weird bookseller's in Newry, and bloody slaughter on the banks of Lough Neagh, in his quest for terrible revelation on the wave-battered basalt coast of the far north." -- Dust jacket flaps.