Old House of Fear

On a fog-bound Hebridean shore, fishermen see a pillar of flame, hear gunfire, and sense that something sinister has awakened around the isolated island of Carnglass. Half a world away, industrial magnate Duncan MacAskival is haunted by the ancestral home his family lost, and he sends his young legal counsel, Hugh Logan, north to secure its purchase from the reclusive Lady MacAskival. What begins as a business errand becomes a journey into Gothic mystery, where old grievances, family memory, and island superstition still rule. Carnglass is a bleak, remote stronghold dominated by the ancient Old House of Fear, a fortress-castle enlarged over centuries and shut off from the modern world by rumor, isolation, and fear. Duncan dreams not of profit but of retiring there in peace, overlooking the Sound of Carnglass, while Hugh is drawn deeper into the island's layered history of the Great Clearance, vanished treasures, and strange legends, including the sacred Table-Men of Askival and tales of a mysterious Third Eye. Yet the greatest shock comes from the people themselves: as Hugh's hopes turn toward Mary MacAskival, he learns she is only fifteen, and that on Carnglass, appearance, desire, and truth are all dangerously at odds. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.