The Return
                                            
                            By Walter de la Mare
                            
                                10 Feb, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        " ... A gripping and poignant novel of psychic possession. The story begins when Arthur Lawford awakes from sleeping on the tomb of an eighteenth-century pirate, Nicholas Sabathier, to find that his face has become entirely different. Indeed, it bear
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                                                " ... A gripping and poignant novel of psychic possession. The story begins when Arthur Lawford awakes from sleeping on the tomb of an eighteenth-century pirate, Nicholas Sabathier, to find that his face has become entirely different. Indeed, it bears an uncanny resemblance to a woodcut portrait of Sabathier in an old French book. At first, Lawford feels exactly himself; but a little later he senses "that other feebly struggling personality ... beginning to insinuate itself into his consciousness." Is it possible for the spirit of a dead person, in its implacable will, to continue its existence, to seize upon the living?" Less