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100 1 _aLeroux, Gaston,
_d1868-1927
245 1 4 _aThe new terror
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aLe cœur cambriolé. English
500 _aPublished in England under the title: The burgled heart. Hannaford Bennett is credited as translator of The burgled heart.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-13
505 0 _aThe new terror -- A terrible tale -- The gold axe.
508 _aTim 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The Macaulay Company, 1926
653 _aSuspense fiction
653 _aShort stories, French -- Translations into English
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into English
653 _aNewlyweds -- Fiction
653 _aPsychic ability -- Fiction
700 1 _aGage, George W.,
_d1887-1957
700 1 _aBennett, Hannaford,
_d1867-1946
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/the-new-terror/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76493
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