The Victorian Album

By Evelyn Berckman and Evelyn Berekman

Book Overview

A story within a story, both affording great leisure-pleasure, about Lorna Teasdale and her niece Christabel whom she has not only reared with love but well educated after they rent a flat in the old... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000GHEUUI
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Deliciously Creepy

I'm not easily scared by books, but I make a point of reading this one with the lights on! Berckman weaves a spellbinding atmosphere of gradually heightening terror by concentrating on a character study of sixtyish spinster Lorraine Teasdale and the strange events that lead her, step by step, into another world (or is it?) Read this book!

Wonderful book!

There are those among us who are endowed with the gift-not yet understood-of contact in some degree with powers beyond the physical world. Sixtyish Lorna Teasdal's awareness of possessing this gift pervaded her life, yet she consciously suppressed and resisted it in her anxiety to be an ordinary normal person. She goes exploring in the attic of her new rented flat in London and comes upon a bag full of letters, a diary, and a Victorian photograph album whose very touch seems to set off whispers of a past she never knew, yet must uncover. Thus begins her journey...