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The House of Susan Lulham
By Phil Rickman
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The Diocesan Exorcist for Hereford must reveal the haunting presence of Susan Lulham...
First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. - Daily Mail
The angular, modernist house was an unexpected bargain for Zoe and Jonathan Mahonie - newcomers to the city of Hereford and apparently unaware that the house's pristine, white interior walls had been coated with the lifeblood of a previous owner.
How is Merrily Watkins, Diocesan Exorcist for Hereford, to know if Zoe Mahonie is lying or deluded when she claims that the wrathful Susan Lulham is still in residence?
Then comes another bloody death.
Who is the real killer?
A MERRILY WATKINS SERIES NOVELLA
First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. - Daily Mail
The angular, modernist house was an unexpected bargain for Zoe and Jonathan Mahonie - newcomers to the city of Hereford and apparently unaware that the house's pristine, white interior walls had been coated with the lifeblood of a previous owner.
How is Merrily Watkins, Diocesan Exorcist for Hereford, to know if Zoe Mahonie is lying or deluded when she claims that the wrathful Susan Lulham is still in residence?
Then comes another bloody death.
Who is the real killer?
A MERRILY WATKINS SERIES NOVELLA
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Phil Rickman
PHIL RICKMAN lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon, The Heresy of Dr Dee and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Gomer Parry Absent Again: "The House of Susan Lulham" by Phil Rickman Published December 15th 2014.
A long time ago, I slowly read through the Merrily Watkins's series. I started reading because not because of the exorcist side of things, but because I wanted to read Rickman’s wonderful portrayal of life in an British rural setting, i.e., the way the rural border region is beautifully evoked, the way the village of Ledwardine as an unsentimental yet picturesque wonderful setting is shown, and the way the pagan folklore and Christianity get thrown into the mix. They all contribute for a nice and sometimes not so cozy reading. They’re not exactly churchy. The supernatural element and sharpness of some of the characters and the writing prevents it from being two sweet. All of this wins me over and works against my literary prejudices.
This novella is not our typical Merrily Watkins. It leans on a more traditional horror story, with a strange house thrown into the mix.
This time there was something that just seemed lacking. Perhaps it was just the absence of the other characters and their weird storylines that usually run parallel to Merrily’s main storyline. The characterization is also very snappy, even taking into account that this a novella.
On top of that Gomer, the plant hire, is nowhere to be seen once again. The picture of him in my mind is an as old Herefordshire country man very rough and ready and spraying swear words in his conversation… He always spices up things! For me Gomer is Bart Simpson grown into an old man. I hope the next novel will feature Gomer as the main character. Otherwise, I think I’m going to move on in terms of the Merrily Watkins series.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While the writing was great I just didn't get to the ending. Too short a story to be that ambiguous for me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5At about a fifth of the length of his usual Merrily Watkins novels, this novella is both less complex and somehow scarier than the novels. That said, however, I'll take a dose of the Reverend Merrily Watkins--even a small dose--any way I can get it.