The Uninvited

By Dorothy Macardle and Dorothy MacCardle

Book Overview

A gothic, bone-chilling Irish ghost story first published in 1941 and now brought back into print. The title benefits from an introduction by well-known academic Professor Luke Gibbons and Martin... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000NZDM5W
• Release Date: January 1942
• Publisher: Literary Guild of America
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Original title: Uneasy Freehold

Good luck finding the original titled novel anywhere. Copies are hard to come by in any condition. Mine is “The Literary Guild of America,” 1942. Hardcover. The dust jacket has a picture of a house and a tree overlooking a cliff by the sea. At first, I thought it was taken from the scene in the movie by the same name. However, that is the description in the book. There is even an edition that was made for the troops during the war. And not any cheaper is the Bantam Books, 1947 Paperback. Unless you collect screenplays, be careful, as the play is also out in book form. I first saw the movie (1944), which is good. It Stars Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey. You know it will be different from the book, but which one is better? In this case, they are quite different, and both are just as good in different ways. Roderick Fitzgerald and his sister Pamela are in search of a house and find one with some beachfront. After negotiating the price, they move in and may have found more than a bargain. Read about their unique way of coping with the situation. The story is refreshing. However, the real worth of the book is the writing style of Dorothy Macardle. I was not prepared for my English-to-English conversion books. She also writes in the time of the time and uses terms local to England in the ’40s. If you like this story, then she also wrote “The Unforeseen”.