Old House of Fear (Registro nro. 118520)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 61007627 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kirk, Russell, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1918-1994 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Old House of Fear |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| Source | rdacarrier |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-01-28 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Old House of Fear" by Russell Kirk is a novel written in the mid-20th century. A Gothic suspense tale set on a forbidding Hebridean island, it follows American lawyer Hugh Logan, sent by magnate Duncan MacAskival to buy the ancestral stronghold, only to meet resistance from secretive locals, shady mainland agents, and eerie legends surrounding the Old House of Fear. Expect storm-battered coasts, clan history, religious and folkloric undertones, and a tightening conspiracy.<br/><br/>The opening of the novel sets rumors swirling around Carnglass—mysterious fires, gunshots, and a reclusive Lady MacAskival—prompting Duncan to dispatch Logan after a cryptic water-stained note calls for “confidential agents” and “immediate action.” Duncan briefs him on the island’s bleak past and the brooding castle, while an old pamphlet layers in superstitions about a “Third Eye,” lost “Table-Men,” and darker legends. In Glasgow, Logan runs into a wall of silence, a slippery “commission agent” linked to the estate, and a back‑alley assault, then notices a nervous, pseudo-military watcher. In Oban, that watcher—Captain Gare—tries to bribe him off, hinting a “friend” controls the Lady’s affairs; Logan bluffs with the name Jackman and scares him away. Pressing on via South Uist, Logan hires a hard-bitten fisherman to drop him by night near Carnglass, rows a dinghy through treacherous reefs at dawn, and staggers ashore at the ruined clachan of Dalcruach. He finds shelter in a soot-blackened crofter’s hut, warms himself by a peat fire, and, as the section closes, readies to venture inland into the island’s mystery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Fleet Publishing, 1961 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Gothic fiction |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Americans -- Scotland -- Fiction |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.102382">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.102382</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77800">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77800</a> |
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