The ghost is persistent and Andrew is bedeviled as he tries to break free. Harness’ spirit has hovered over the school ever since, but now manifests itself to Andrew, who watches in horror as the specter murders a classmate and threatens anyone close to Andrew. The poet was a student at Harrow 200 years before and allegedly had a love affair with another male student, John Harness, which ended tragically. Although an outsider, Andrew is cast in a school play about Lord Byron, to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. He had been expelled from his last school for doing drugs. Hoping to straighten him out before attending college, rebellious teenager Andrew Taylor is sent to England’s prestigious Harrow School by his parents. It deals with murder most gruesome, ghosts, and the life and loves of English poet Lord Byron. In a genre I’d categorize as “intellectual horror,” Justin Evans’ novel is for those who want cerebral stimulation while surrendering to that tingling chill that comes from being scared out of their wits. Has the trend for vampire books subsided and will the horror void be filled by a resurgence of ghost stories? If so then The White Devil is right up there leading the charge.
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