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For over thirty years, readers have marveled at
Philip José Farmer’s inventive integration of
popular fiction and literature’s most beloved characters, in
a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the
fictional biographies Tarzan
Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life,
Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg,
The
Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time’s Last Gift,
Hadon of
Ancient Opar, Flight
to Opar, The
Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc
Savage’s First Adventure.
The Evil in
Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle,
plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter
of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and
’40s, Dr. James Clarke “Doc” Wildman, is
all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in
Derbyshire, England—old, dark, and supposedly haunted.
But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the
ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an
introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural
with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work
through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action
at Pemberley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes
stories.
The Evil in
Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal
to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly followers of
Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer’s own celebrated
Wold Newton Family.
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