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The Wyvern Mystery

by Joseph Sheridan LE FANU (1814 - 1873)

The Vale of Carwell

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

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Listen next episodes of The Wyvern Mystery:
A Drive to Twyford , A Letter , A Messenger , A Party of Three , A Silent Farewell , A Talk With the Squire , A Twilight Visit , An Abduction , An Inspection of Carwell Grange , An Old Friend , An Unlooked-for Return , Awake , Bertha Velderkaust , Charles Fairfield Alone , Coming In , Conclusion , Day-Twilight-Darkness , Harry Appears at the Grange , Harry Arrives , Harry Drinks a Glass and Spills a Glass , Harry Fairfield Grows Uneasy , Harry’s Beer and Conversation , Hatherton , Home , Home to Wyvern , How Fares the Child? , in which the Squire Loses His Gold Headed Cane , Lilly Dogger is Sent to Bed , Marjory Trevellian , Mildred Tarnley’s Warning Story , Never Did Run Smooth , News From Cressley Common , Pursuit , Restless , Sergent-Major Archdale , Speech Returns , The Bell Rings , The Brothers’ Walk , The Drive Over Cressley Common by Moonlight , The Enchanted Garden , The Grange , The Heir of the Fairfields , The Hour and the Man , The Lady has her Tea , The March by Night , The March to Noulton Farm , The Old Soldier Grows More Friendly and Frightens Mrs. Tarnley , The Old Squire and Alice Maybell , The Old Squire Leaves Wyvern , The Old Squire Unlike Himself , The Omen of Carwell Grange , The Squires Eldest Son Comes Home , The Summons , The Terrace Garden , The Trout , The Visitor , The Welcome , The Wykford Doctor , Through the House , Through the Wall , Tom is Ordered Up , Tom Orange , Unreasonable Bertha