Description

Born from the mists of Irish legend, Bram Stoker s ‘The Snake s Pass traces a romance fraught with mystery and peril.

Arthur Severn is holidaying in the town of Carnacliff, Ireland, when he meets a peasant girl in the fog and falls in love. But their social standing is not the only thing keeping them apart. The town s money lender, Black Murdock wants to take control of the land where Arthur has been staying and seems obsessed with finding a hidden treasure lost beneath the bog. As legends resurface of the Snake King s lost crown, the shifting swamp threatens to swallow the house itself and destroy Arthur s hopes of finding the girl again.

Drawing on the legend of St Patrick, Stoker s thrilling romance creates a brooding world of danger and mystery. His only work set entirely in Ireland, ‘The Snake s Pass is an unmissable classic and rightful precursor to the Gothic horror that is Bram Stoker s ‘Dracula .