03423cam a22004213u 4500 76493 UtSlPG 20260610134754.0 m cr n 260607r20251926utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927 The new terror Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Le cœur cambriolé. English Published in England under the title: The burgled heart. Hannaford Bennett is credited as translator of The burgled heart. Release date is 2025-07-13 The new terror -- A terrible tale -- The gold axe. Tim Miller, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The new terror" by Gaston Leroux is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a romantic-psychological mystery with occult overtones, in which a devoted young man, Hector, sees his lifelong love for his cousin Cordélia undermined by an enigmatic English painter whose art exerts an uncanny influence. Themes of hypnotic suggestion, auras, and the idea of a “stolen heart” drive the tension as love, jealousy, and belief collide. The opening of the novel follows Hector from childhood betrothal to Cordélia through his American sojourn and return, where he senses a troubling change in her tied to her art and a mysterious painter. Summoned to the gloomy estate of Vascoeuil, he learns Cordélia and her father have been abroad, sees a shadowy man at Hennequeville, and then hastily marries Cordélia upon their return. At the wedding an unsigned gift arrives: a luminous portrait of Cordélia, clearly by the English painter “Patrick,” which radiates a strange power. That night Cordélia claims she is “as cold as the portrait,” speaks fervently of auras and suggestion, gazes on the painting, and falls into a rigid hypnotic sleep; a local doctor fails, but the specialist Dr. Thurel identifies hypnotic influence and, after blowing on the portrait’s eyes, rouses her. She wakes speaking as if she has shared a moonlit walk and a “golden chamber,” memories that do not match Hector’s reality. The next day she is loving yet altered, and on the second night she is again drawn to the moonlit park, asks Hector to recite Byron as if replaying another man’s words, begs him to save her, and collapses once more into rigidity—leaving Hector terrified that an unseen rival is directing her soul. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York: The Macaulay Company, 1926 Suspense fiction Short stories, French -- Translations into English French fiction -- Translations into English Newlyweds -- Fiction Psychic ability -- Fiction Gage, George W., 1887-1957 Bennett, Hannaford, 1867-1946 https://archive.org/details/the-new-terror/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76493 117218 117218