Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man in Fareham, Hertfordshire, boasts a resident, if retired, ghost: Dr. Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumored to have killed his wife. The landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malign Underhill. Led by curiosity and an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington uncovers the key to Underhill's satanic secrets. And the skeletons in the cupboard of Allington's own domestic affairs are just rattling to get out, too.
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Review:
"Aside from dextrously woven horror and the humor, the book has a fine character study of a self-indulgent man who is literally terrified into assuming his family obligations."
Book Description:
'Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities - including superb sexual comedy' Sunday Times
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- PublisherAcademy Chicago Publishers
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0897332202
- ISBN 13 9780897332200
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages252
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