Florence Flannery: Gruesome tale about an at odds couple in a strange house....

Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell was born on the 1st November 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire.

Her childhood was fraught with problems, her alcoholic father left early in her life and was later found dead on a London Street. Life thereafter was poverty with an uncaring mother.

However, her talents took her to the Slade School of Fine Art and later to study in Paris.

Her first fiction, written at a mere 16, was a violent medieval historical novel, `The Viper of Milan'. Initially rejected ...