Narrated by Clara, the only survivor of the cursed Wieland family, this Gothic tale builds in suspense to one tragic night when Clara's brother, in a divinely inspired seizure, commits an unspeakable act. Edited and with an Introduction by Fred Lewis Pattee.

PREFACE by F.L. Pattee (1893) This little volume is not a guide-book; it is rather a study of nature, from the standpoint of one of her loveliest retreats. No nook in New England, outside of the northern wilds, is nearer to nature's heart, than is Pasquaney. It is almost as nature left it; it has lost none of its primal sweetness, and yet it is not a weary journey away into the shaggy, uncomfortable wilderness. It offers to its lovers a fresh, ideal retreat, where they may spend the summer months amid the rarest sylvan beauties, and where they may, at the same time, be within easy distance...