Wizard's Son Volume 3

A young man inherits a title, a castle, and a curse. Walter Methven wanted nothing more than a life of easy pleasure, but death has made him Lord Erradeen, and with the title comes an obligation he cannot refuse: to spend his days at the ancient fortress on Loch Houran, in the presence of the Warlock Lord, a figure of terrible power who has held the Erradeen line in thrall for generations. The third volume finds Walter finally confronting the darkness that has shadowed his inheritance, torn between the Warlock Lord's insidious influence and the quiet faith of Oona, the woman who has waited for him. Margaret Oliphant builds her Gothic tale with meticulous psychological precision, letting the supernatural emerge from the fog of the Scottish Highlands like a nightmare made real. This is Victorian horror at its most sophisticated, where the true terror lies not in ghosts but in the corruption of the soul. For readers who crave the atmospheric dread of Wilkie Collins and the moral weight of George Eliot.