Started: March 18
Finished: March 27
Notes: Apparently this author was a pseudonym used by several authors in the mid-20th Century, but a little Internet snooping has revealed to me to true author of this fantasy novel was Thomas Martin. Either way, I'm not familiar with the author, but I'm hoping this novel will at least be decent because I've been disappointed with a number of my fantasy reads of late. I picked this one up at a used book store because I kept finding it over and over again, almost like it was calling to me.
Mini review: At first I was disappointed because, despite the cover art and title and back copy and front copy and even the first chapter which took place with a maid and a hermit outside a Scottish castle at night, this was not an S&S novel, not even fantasy, unless maybe dark fantasy. No, this turned out to be something of a horror novel set in the modern day (at least by 1968 standards, when this book was published). But that being said, this wasn't too bad. Not great, but not awful. A hermit attempts to rape a young woman engaged to a young man, this is captured before the deed can be done. The local lord has the hermit punished, and afterward the hermit lays a curse upon the family. At first everyone scoffs, but when events start occurring related to the curse, the lord calls in the aid of a group in London called The Guardians, who deal with fighting diabolical forces. Kind of fun, dark but not too dark, so I didn't hate it.
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