Claimed!

By Gertrude Barrows Bennett | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

About the book

Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.

Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson's courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box’s ancient, terrifying origin…

The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror.

‘The most important female writer of speculative fiction that you’ve probably never heard of’ Worlds Without End

Editions of Claimed!

Paperback
ISBN 9781405972925
EBook
ISBN 9781405972932

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Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.

Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson's courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box’s ancient, terrifying origin…

The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror.

‘The most important female writer of speculative fiction that you’ve probably never heard of’ Worlds Without End

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Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.

Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson's courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box’s ancient, terrifying origin…

The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror.

‘The most important female writer of speculative fiction that you’ve probably never heard of’ Worlds Without End

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Claimed!?

Fiction > Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction > Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction

Where can I read a sample of Claimed!?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781405972925

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Claimed!?

Gertrude Barrows Bennett

Who is the Publisher of the book Claimed!?

Penguin Books Ltd

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

Claimed! is available as paperback(ISBN 9781405972925) and ebook(ISBN 9781405972932)

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