The Hand of Saint Ury

By Gordon MacCreagh

A mummified human hand turns a search for family origins into a disturbing encounter with the past. Jimmy Doak, an American tracing the history of his surname, finds his identity entangled with the relic known as the Hand of Saint Ury and an old family history whose implications resist any simple explanation. Genealogy becomes the gateway to a supernatural horror story in which ancestry is not merely recorded but capable of intruding upon the present. Dockbridge Manor provides a fitting ground for uncertainty, from its library and chapel wing to the root cellar and crypt. Reports of a fast-moving "Spider Horror", together with s ances and psychical investigation, invite competing interpretations: occult manifestation, psychological suggestion or a phenomenon that might yet submit to scientific enquiry. Comic elements and a romance subplot complicate the darkness, while the mystery repeatedly tests the boundary between rational scrutiny and inherited superstition. Beneath its macabre central image lies a family history mystery concerned with identity, fear and the persistence of antiquity in a modern world. The short-story form keeps the focus tight as Jimmy's investigation brings genealogy and ghosts into uneasy proximity, allowing doubt to remain active rather than reducing the strange to a single explanation. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9378416489
• ISBN13: 9789378416484
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"