This is an updated, modern take on the supernatural gothic tale. Set in present day, a young British man (only identified as A.) inherits an estate in rural Virginia. The house is over a century old and it seems each of its prior occupants has met with a premature end. This beneficiary is a rather…
REVIEW: EMPTY MANSIONS by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Bill Dedman has uncovered one of the strangest true stories in the history of American royalty. There were the Vanderbilts, the Stuyvesants, the Rockefellers and then the Clarks. That they are not a household name today is part of the mystery that Dedman seeks to unravel. William A Clark’s story is a quintessential boot-strap tale.…