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Horrid Mysteries - A Story from the German of the Marquis of Grosse by Carl Grosse, Peter Will

eososray's review against another edition

2.0

About the only really gothic part of this book was the first line I awoke, at length, from that long swoon, and found myself stretched out in a coffin. Some more of the receptacles of the wrecks of mortality stood near me, and the odour of corruption was the first thing that affected my senses. which I thought boded well for this story. Alas it was not to be, instead it turned out to be a rather boring tale of two counts, a marquis and a baron, and the few females they fall in love with while traveling around being happy or melancholy, depending on their individual personalities. It was most definitely not a very "horrid" book and there was no mystery at all.