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" A] book of strange adventures, of ghostly, nightmare visions; you will want to read it at a sitting, but do not begin it at bedtime unless your nerves are in a thoroughly healthy condition" - "The Reader"
" Q]uite a remarkable book . . . Mr. Henham has the exceptional gift of lending an atmosphere of reality to the fantastic. . . . Some people will find the book enthralling: others may pronounce it quite mad, but everyone must recognise its undeniable cleverness." - "The Outlook"
"This strange story . . . has a tropical luxuriance of imagination quite unusual in works by English...

"It would be difficult to find a novel more unusual or more original. That it is beautifully written, full of poetic passages, and contains many fascinating descriptions ...] will be regarded as a matter of course by those who have read any of his] preceding books, and therefore know that John Trevena is unquestionably one of the most notable of living writers." - "New York Times," Jan. 10, 1915
"The construction of the book is very artistic and is difficult to accomplish, but apart from its structural merits 'Sleeping Waters' has high value. ...] Our admiration for this author has...

The narrator of Tenebrae inhabits a decaying, desolate mansion in the remote and wild countryside with his younger brother and their mad old uncle, driven insane by abuse of opium and alcohol. This nameless narrator is a morbid young man who passes most of his time in a room painted all black, poring over arcane manuscripts dealing with the mysteries of death, while sipping garishly coloured liquors brewed by his uncle or cups of coffee flavoured with arsenic.





When he falls in love with a neighbour, he looks forward to marrying her and trading his life of despondency for one...