The Wyvern Mystery

by Joseph Sheridan LE FANU (1814 - 1873)

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The Wyvern Mystery

A classic with a pinch of romance, a pinch of gothic, and a dash of mystery, are you interested yet? When young Alice Maybell’ father dies she is taken in by Squire Fairfield, a widower with two handsome young sons, Charles and Harry. As Alice grows into a lovely young woman she attracts the attentions of more than one admirer, not all welcome. She marries the man she loves whilst fleeing the home she grew up in, but the blissful happiness that follows is short-lived. She finds herself pulled into the middle of the secrets of her husbands family’s past. No one is quite what they seem, and there are many twists along the way. What is this dark secret in her husband’s past? Who - or what - is the malignant presence that haunts Carwell Grange? Join us as we answer these troubling questions in ‘The Wyvern Mystery’ - Summary by fiddlesticks


Listen next episodes of The Wyvern Mystery:
A Drive to Twyford , A Messenger , A Silent Farewell , A Talk With the Squire , A Twilight Visit , An Abduction , An Old Friend , Bertha Velderkaust , Conclusion , Day-Twilight-Darkness , Harry Drinks a Glass and Spills a Glass , Harry Fairfield Grows Uneasy , Hatherton , Home to Wyvern , How Fares the Child? , Marjory Trevellian , Pursuit , Sergent-Major Archdale , Speech Returns , The Enchanted Garden , The Heir of the Fairfields , The Hour and the Man , The March by Night , The March to Noulton Farm , The Old Squire Leaves Wyvern , The Welcome , The Wykford Doctor , Through the Wall , Tom Orange , Unreasonable Bertha