Author: Anstey, F.

F. Anstey is the pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Sir Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English writer, most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities. His reputation was confirmed by The Tinted Venus and many humorous parodies in Punch magazine.

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The Curse of the Catafalques
by Anstey, F. — The Curse of the Catafalques (1882) by F. Anstey is a humorous Victorian novelette about a fortune-hunting bachelor who must face a Christmas Eve, supernatural “haunted” curse to marry an heiress, Chlorine. It is a satirical, lighthearted horror story where the protagonist, after being pledged to the family, tries to avoid the terrifying consequences of the curse. A blending of supernatural horror and comedy,…
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