num_pages: 336
description: Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine was an autocrat. He ruled his village with a firm but kindly hand--instructing his tenants on their crops, their children and their love affairs. And when he died and the new Squire came, the village stirred uneasily. For the new Squire had strange ideas-and even stranger friends-friends like Mr. Mundford who never seemed to grow any older and whose name was linked with the terrible Hell Fire Club. And Mr. Mundford was interested in too many things that should not have concerned him... like the ruins of the old Roman temple... and what happened in the village on All-Hallow's Night...and in the silent, amber-eyed young woman called Damask Greenaway.
language: English
title: Afternoon of  an Autocrat
titlecomplete: Afternoon of  an Autocrat
characters: religious fanatic Amos Greenway, Sir Charles Shelmadine, Mr Turnbull, Mrs Fred Clopton, his son and son's wife, Fuller, Danny Fuller, Matt Juby, Damask Greenway, Miss Parsons, Lady Alice
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 206
publisher: Fawcett