The Antiquarian

by David E Grinnell

Overview

The pages of this diary belonged to a young British archeologist, Nicholas Ainsworth, known for his odd curiosity for the morbid and macabre. His expedition for deviant burials and historical artifacts in the Transylvanian Alps abruptly ruined with the approaching Nazi occupation, he seeks refuge in a mysterious old castle. As he settles into the abandoned gothic ruins, strange phenomena cause him to question his sanity...and if he is truly alone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781959860235
Publisher:	Curious Corvid Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2023
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

David Grinnell who also goes by the pen name David Edgar Grinnell is a poet, author, and literary scholar from Cleveland, Ohio. He was born 1992 in Norfolk, Virginia, but grew up in the suburb of Bedford. In 2014 he attended Cleveland State University and graduated with his bachelors in English. Grinnell specializes in Romanticism, the Gothic, and draws inspiration from vulnerability. He reflects and portrays love alongside hope, melancholy, and even occasional despair. Currently, he is a funeral director apprentice at St. John Funeral Home.

Editorial Reviews

This story is like Dracula meets M.R James, with a marked degree of romance included in this story steeped in history and folklore. This is a story that I would say is a slow burn, yet there is ever present within it an air of the gothic that will serve to drive you on, though the sweetness of the story's inclusion of love is also a hook that will keep you pouring over the text. I adored the fact that this book took the form of an epistolary novel, adding to the feel of Dracula the story also does bear about it the same scholarliness of the antiquarian ghost stories of M.R James, you can truly tell from this book the similarly scholarly background of the author. Certainly, a wonderful read for lovers of older macabre works. --Byron Griffin, author of A Witches Quickening

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