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Palace of Shadows

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內容簡介 ✰紐時暢銷懸疑驚悚之作一部令人毛骨悚然、難以釋懷的歷史小說，獻給喜愛《艾塞克斯之蛇 (The Essex Serpent)》與《皮拉奈奇(Piranesi)》的讀者。“我沒有要求你做不可能的事，” 神秘的女主人说， “只要將所有你能想像的怪異與混亂，融入這棟建築中。”故事講述一位窮困潦倒的藝術家塞繆爾（Samuel Etherstone），在倫敦迷失了方向，他的作品遭到贊助人與評論家抵制，好友奧斯卡（Oscar Wilde）也逃亡到巴黎，一連串悲劇重創了他的身心。因此，當一位神秘的女繼承人切斯特菲爾（Chesterfield）夫人，委託他在荒涼的北約克郡走私者海岸（Smugglers' Coast of North Yorkshire）修建一座詭異的建築時，他別無選擇地接受了。在當地酒吧過夜時，塞繆爾（Samuel Etherstone）被警告不要在古宅花太多時間。村民們講述了房子原建築師弗朗西斯（Francisco Varano）的悲慘遭遇，以及人們被這棟古宅逼瘋的故事，還有它建在鬧鬼的土地上，許多年輕女孩離奇失踪，她們的幽靈引誘他人步入死亡……抵達切斯特菲爾古宅，他才得知弗朗西斯（Francisco Varano）失蹤的可怕細節。然而，女主人卻不斷擴建，沒有人告訴他，她那令人毛骨悚然的執念背後的原因……隨著塞繆爾深入調查，整個項目的本質越加讓他不寒而慄。An outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray Celestin’s Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all . . . “I’m not asking you to build something impossible. I’m asking you to build something that contains all the strangeness and confusion that you can muster.” Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics alike, his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile living in Paris, and a personal tragedy has taken its toll. So when he is contacted by a mysterious heiress, Mrs Chesterfield, and asked to work on a commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers’ Coast of North Yorkshire, he accepts the offer. Staying overnight in the local village pub, Samuel is warned not to spend too much time there. He is told of the fate of the house’s original architect, Francisco Varano, chilling tales of folk driven mad by the house, of it being built on haunted land where young girls have vanished, their ghosts now calling others to their deaths... It is only on arrival at the Chesterfield house that he learns the sinister details of Varano’s disappearance. And yet its owner keeps adding wing upon wing, and no one will tell him the reason behind her chilling obsession . . . But as Samuel delves deeper into the mysteries that swirl about the house, the nature of the project becomes terrifyingly clear.

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作者介紹 Ray CelestinRay Celestin is novelist and screenwriter based in London. His debut novel, The Axeman’s Jazz, won the CWA New Blood Award for best debut crime novel of the year, and was featured on numerous ‘Books of the Year’ lists. His follow-up, Dead Man’s Blues, won the Historia Historical Thriller of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for a number of other awards. The novels are part of a series – The City Blues Quartet – which charts the twin histories of jazz and the mob through the middle fifty years of the twentieth century.

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