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Archibald Malmaison - A Gothic Tale of Dual Identity and Ancestral Evil
Hardcover
HorrorClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515424352
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Born under an ominous family legend, Archibald Malmaison grows into a man whose divided nature may be the inheritance of something ancient and terrible.
Archibald is the second son of Sir Clarence Malmaison, a member of an old English family shadowed by stories of sorcery, madness, and a sinister ancestral bargain. From childhood, Archibald displays an unusual mixture of intelligence, beauty, emotional coldness, and unpredictable behavior. After suffering a mysterious fit, his personality changes dramatically, and those around him begin to wonder whether the young man they knew has disappeared-or whether another identity has awakened within him.
As Archibald's strange history unfolds, the boundaries between psychology, heredity, and the supernatural become increasingly uncertain. Family secrets, buried memories, ominous coincidences, and disturbing transformations suggest that the past has not released its hold on the Malmaison bloodline. Hawthorne builds the story through an atmosphere of mounting unease, creating a portrait of a man divided against himself long before the idea of multiple personalities became a familiar subject in popular fiction.
First published in 1879, Archibald Malmaison is an early Gothic exploration of dual identity, ancestral corruption, and the hidden forces shaping human character. Published several years before Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the novel anticipates later psychological and supernatural fiction concerned with divided personalities and concealed evil. It will appeal to readers of classic horror, Gothic fiction, psychological mysteries, and nineteenth-century tales of inherited doom.
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