Olalla [Classic Tales Edition]

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: B. J. Harrison

There is something wrong about the Spanish residencia on the hill. Some disregard it as only a house with a mad woman with her two children. Others claim that unspeakable things happen at night, when the house is in the shadows. When a wounded war hero takes refuge in this forbidding home, he slowly realizes that degenerate people tend to fraternize with degenerate spirits.

Public Domain (P)2018 B.J. Harrison

Probably not long enough for a credit, but...

"She seemed the link that bound me in with dead things on the one hand, and with our pure and pitying God on the other: a thing brutal and divine, and akin at once to the innocence and to the unbridled forces of the earth."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

Those Victorians sure loved their Gothic vampire stories. This one was published in 1885 (Dracula was published in 1897). It shares a couple similarities: castle in the mountains, love, blood, lust, crosses. My prior exposure to this story was very limited, but I enjoyed it. Stevenson tied it all down and put it to bed tightly. It isn't my favorite genre, but I do enjoy Stevenson's craft.

good story

unexpected and unpredictable..makes me want to read more by R L Stevenson..a very well written work