· Fingers of Fear Hardcover – January 1, Fingers of Fear. Hardcover – January 1, by J. U. Nicholson (Author) out of 5 stars. 2 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Try again.4/5(2). · Fingers of Fear is an Old Dark House story. Not just a story about an old dark house–a story in the gothic subgenre typified by James Whale’s The Old Dark House (which is great) and its source, J. B. Priestly’s novel Benighted (which I haven’t read). The whole story takes place in an isolated mansion inhabited by an eccentric, fractious family on the edge of disintigration. New York: Covici, Friede, Publishes, Octavo, pp. blank note: first and last two leaves are blanks, jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., original green cloth, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. A tale of mystery and horror set in New England at the ancestral home of the Ormes family which.
FINGERS OF FEAR. By. GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe. Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. A blood ourdler, with ghosts and werewolves disporting themselves in a house. In the Berkehires. Insanity, murder, as bloody as they come. Far-fetched but it achieves its purpose. Nicolson, J.U. Fingers of Fear. Valancourt Books: Richmond: Trade paperback, New, pp. "Utterly ruined by the stock market crash of , Selden Seaforth has lost his money, his job, and his wife. When an old school friend, Ormond Ormes, offers Seaforth a job cataloguing the library at the mansion of Ormesby in the Berkshires, it. Click to read more about Fingers of Fear by J.U. Nicolson. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers.
We are fortunate in having this thrilling narrative unfolded by J.U. Nicolson, whose rich imagination has produced such volumes of poetry as "The King of the Black Isles" and "Sonnets of a Minnesinger," and whose already well developed ability to spin a tale was sharpened during the long years he spent on his monumental modern English version. The only novel by J. U. Nicolson (), Fingers of Fear () was hailed by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the finest supernatural horror novels ever written, and it is perhaps unrivaled in its ability to evoke a weird and uncanny atmosphere of eerie dread. This edition features a reproduction of the original dust jacket art. Fingers of Fear is an Old Dark House story. Not just a story about an old dark house–a story in the gothic subgenre typified by James Whale’s The Old Dark House (which is great) and its source, J. B. Priestly’s novel Benighted (which I haven’t read). The whole story takes place in an isolated mansion inhabited by an eccentric, fractious family on the edge of disintigration.
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