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Samenvatting van Verhalen vol terreur
- 8 min. leestijd
- 10 parts
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A skeptical doctor rides past a ruined mill and sees a corpse glowing in the road, and his horse sees it too.
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Verhalen vol terreur in short
Tales of Terror gathers fifteen stories of haunting, curse and dread, mostly told by men who set out to disbelieve. They move from a London doctor's contest with a woman of strange eyes, to ghosts in Devon and Wales, to sea voyages shadowed by greed and guilt, to the burning streets of Meerut. What you keep is a set of patterns: the skeptical witness, the restless dead who seek a listener, the prophecy that helps fulfil itself, and the charmer who rules others by eyes, voice or music.
What Verhalen vol terreur is about
Would you believe a ghost if it led you, step by step, toward a secret? A doctor comes home to find his best friend hollowed out by a woman with oily eyes. A skeptical physician rides past a ruined windmill and sees a corpse glowing in the road.
Dick Donovan was the pen name of a British writer who died in 1934. He gathered fifteen tales of the uncanny in Tales of Terror, from the Indian Mutiny to Black Forest castles and haunted rooms in Devon and Wales. Many are told by men who swear they never believed in spirits. You get the substance of each tale up to its brink, and what links them.
Voor wie is het?. If you love ghost stories told by sworn witnesses, haunted rooms, curses that keep their word, and tales set at sea, in India and in the Black Forest, here is a whole evening of shivers.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A friend's ruin begins on a staircase
Dr Peter Haslar writes as an old man to correct the newspaper versions of a case he calls ghastly. In 1857 he is best man for his friend Jack Redcar, an engineer, who marries the lovely Maude Tremlett. Then Haslar sails for America and stays two years.
He returns to find a note from Maude begging him to come at once. She is aged and haunted, and she says Jack has been taken from her by a woman called Annette. At Wiesbaden she met this woman on a hotel staircase, saw a hard face and eyes that gleamed like oil, and shuddered. The woman appeared again in London, where Maude's baby sickened after she held him. From then on Annette ruled the house, and gentle Jack struck his wife.
Haslar follows the pair to Potes, a snowbound town in northern Spain. There he finds Jack gaunt and frightened, until Annette walks in with her silvery voice and calm smile. Moments later Haslar lies on the floor with a broken arm. Good sense alone cannot defeat a will with no scruples.
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A restless ghost drags doubters toward the truth
Two tales begin with proud skeptics.
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Two sea voyages bring love, greed and danger
Red Lily begins on the sailing ship Sirocco, becalmed on the way from Bombay to London.
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Forest tales of curses, stars and dancing dead
Three tales draw on German legend.
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Haunted rooms in Devon and Wales keep their warnings
Lydia Stainsby tells of Moorland Grange, a Devon house her father buys cheaply after twenty-five empty years.
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A dinner on a veranda hides a coming storm
With Fire and Death opens in Meerut on May Day, 1857, in the largest military station in British India.
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Prophecies make themselves true in two tales
In The Cave of Blood, a Welsh village falls under the spell of John Morgan, a silent stranger believed to be a prophet.
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A sea captain says the dead are hunting him
The Doomed Man comes from the papers of Richard Gibling, a London merchant who kept the story secret for fear of ridicule.
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Skeptics become witnesses and the dead seek justice
A pattern runs through the collection: the narrator who says he never believed in ghosts.
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Plain witnesses, vivid scenes, and a steady voice
Several tales are told in the first person by narrators who give their profession, background and doubts.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Dr Peter Haslar A sensible physician who tries to rescue his friend Jack Redcar from a woman of strange power and finds himself in danger too.
- Annette A harsh-faced woman with oily eyes and a silvery voice who draws men into her service and leaves ruin behind her.
- Dr John Patmore Lindsay A proud skeptic who finds that a ruined mill and a glowing figure will not let him rest.
- Lily Hetherington Known as Red Lily, she loves Dick Fenton and has promised to marry him on Christmas Day, while an officer's gaze troubles her.
- Alfred Cornell A strict and daring second officer whose dark eyes hold others still and who swears he will have Lily for his wife.
- George Willoughby A young artillery officer who guards the great Delhi magazine and vows it will never fall to rebels.
- Ruth Tudor A proud, clever Welsh village beauty who is told she is doomed to become a murderess.
- Captain Jubal Tredegar A sea captain of Cornwall who plays cribbage, weeps over a photograph, and says that a dead man hunts him.
How it ends (spoiler)
Haslar sees Annette carry Jack over a cliff, and he later marries Maude. At the windmill, Lindsay's ghost leads him to the murdered Charles Royce, and suspicion falls on Silas. Dick Fenton returns to stop Lily's wedding to Cornell. Willoughby orders the Delhi magazine destroyed, and Scully fires the train; Willoughby escapes badly burned. Ruth Tudor kills her own daughter in madness, fulfilling the prophecy. Tredegar leaps into the sea after seeing a bleeding figure, and Gibling never fully recovers.
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What is Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan about?
It is a collection of fifteen supernatural and horror stories, including The Woman with the Oily Eyes, The Corpse Light, Red Lily, With Fire and Death and The Doomed Man. Most are told by narrators who begin as skeptics.
Who was Dick Donovan?
Dick Donovan was the pen name of Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock, an English writer who died in 1934. He wrote detective stories and many tales of mystery and the supernatural for magazine readers.
Are the stories in Tales of Terror true?
They are fiction, though many narrators swear they are true and some tales draw on folk legends, such as vampire belief in the Pyrenees or the German dance of the dead. Several are framed as signed testimony.
What tales are in the collection?
The book includes The Woman with the Oily Eyes and its sequel, The Corpse Light, Red Lily, The Pirate's Treasure, The Legend of Wolfspring, The White Raven, With Fire and Death, The Cave of Blood, The Astrologer, The Dance of the Dead, The Mystic Spell and The Doomed Man.
Is Tales of Terror easy to read or hear?
Each story is short and self-contained, with a clear narrator, strong scenes and a steady build toward a midnight moment. That makes the book well suited to reading or listening one tale at a time.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Donovan, Dick. Tales of Terror. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-terror.
Donovan, D. (2026). Tales of terror. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-terror
Donovan, Dick. Tales of Terror. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-terror.
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