The Ghosts of Kerfol, Deborah Noyes
The Ghosts of Kerfol, Deborah Noyes
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The Ghosts of Kerfol

Author: Deborah Noyes

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2010


Synopsis

In her classic ghost story “Kerfol,” Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs—no live dogs—at Kerfol that day. In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor to tell Anne de Barrigan’s story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more tales slip forward in time, peering in on a young artist, a hard-drinking party girl, a young American couple, and a deaf gardener who now tends the Kerfol estate. All of these souls are haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol—the dead dogs, the sensual yet uneasy relationships, and the bitter taste of revenge.

About Deborah Noyes

Deborah Noyes is the editor of the young adult anthologies Gothic!, The Restless Dead, and Sideshow. She is also the author of several novels for adults, as well as an accomplished photographer. Deborah Noyes lives near Boston.


Reviews

A lot of reviewers have already talked about the plot of this book so I won’t waste anytime filling you in on what you already know. I thought it was beautiful written and a little creepy, by the end of the fifth story I realised how it was all linked in and even though I was confused at the start I......more

Goodreads review by Cindy

Noyes takes Edith Wharton's classic gothic ghost story, Kerfol, and retells it in an opening story three times the length of the original from the viewpoint of a servant girl. Then, she further riffs on the story in four more stories set in later years that continue the themes and elements of the or......more

Goodreads review by Vee

I really wanted to like this, but the other stories in this collection didn't quite live up to the first, and after finding out that this first story is just a rewritten version of an Edith Warton story, I'm left wondering how to rate this. While the first story was unsettling, and left me thinking,......more

I really loved this book of short stories, based on Edith Wharton's classic ghost story "Kerfol" (which I dug up on Project Gutenberg to read AFTER I finished this collection.) It has been ages since I read a ghost story, and these just-creepy-enough stories were extremely well crafted and highly en......more