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Title: The Magic Cottage by James Herbert ISBN: 0-451-40106-9 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: December, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: growing suspense & magic.........
Comment: This was one of the most enchanting, gripping stories I have ever read. Great book! The story centers around a couple from London, Mike and Midge, who hunger for a house of their own. Midge starts scanning the newspaper and is drawn to a little add for a cottage called Gramarye. When they go see the house they find out from the realtor that is being sold as part of the estate of a very old woman who lived there most of her life and died suddenly. When they go to the house Midge is completely enchanted by the little cottage, feeling like it is home. Mike sees the flaws that need fixing. Still, passion wins over and they buy the little house and work to restore it's beauty. They seem like the perfect couple who has just found the perfect home.
Yet ... there is something strange about Gramarye, Mike can feel it, Midge seems oblivious to it. Animals come into the house and eat out of their hands, they befriend a little red squirrel who comes in daily and chatters away at them. Wounds heal spontaneously. It all sounds pretty silly, but it is all part of the magic that is Gramarye.
Soon the enchanting life starts to take a turn when they meet young people who live in a house on the other side of the forest behind their house. Midge becomes entangled with their group, which ends up being a cult. The cult wants the house and will stop at nothing to possess it. Thus begins the battle of wills while Mike tries to save Midge from the cult and his new home from their possession. Don't worry, I haven't given anything away.
This book was a mystery loaded with magic and danger. It has ghosts and spirits, both good and evil. It begins by sparking the imagination, and the tension grows stronger and stronger in this well wrought story, until it reaches a crescendo that will leave you breathless. This was such a good book that I put my owner bookplate in it and made it a keeper for my own shelf. Find this book and read it, you'll love it as much as I did!
Rating: 5
Summary: Enchanting, Scary, Thrilling, Thought-provoking read!
Comment: This was the first Herbert book I read...back in 1988..I have since read them all and it remains my favourite. It is a story of a young couple who move into a beautiful (round) cottage in the countryside. Herbert is at his best as he tells this tale, enchanting you with his descriptions of the animals, people & surroundings. I find James Herbert fantasticly good at making me laugh during even the scariest moments - this book is certainly funny, but equally keeping you on the edge of your seat as you read. Sex, drugs, rock n roll, art, the occult, love, life and death all feature in this unique story, winding you in as you discover more and more about the characters....Watch out for Rambo the squirrel...he appears in several of Herbert's books in different forms. Over and above any other book I have ever read I would recommend this one...do give it a shot...I hope you'll find it as enjoyable as I do.
Rating: 3
Summary: Synopsis
Comment: Gramarye. it's like a fairy tale- a lovely rustic bungalow at the edge of a forest. Thoroughly charming. A red tile roof and ramshackle white picket fence. For Mike and Midge, Gramarye is a dream house. idyllic, even enchanted.
Then everything changes:eerie incidents, inexplicable attackes, ghostly visitations, are set in motion, Mike sense the presence of an awesome power- a black magic in all its hellish guises. Walls appear to be moving closer and closer, as if to grasp Mike in the cold grip pf death, while unstoppable slithering evil prepares to reclaim the cottage in the name of all that is twisted, unearthly and foul. And an ideal storybook cottage becomes the palce where horror dwells and the blood runs cold....
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Title: The Dark by James Herbert ISBN: 0451155424 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Others by James Herbert ISBN: 0812579046 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Haunted by James Herbert ISBN: 0515103454 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Once by James Herbert ISBN: 0765343509 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 20 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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