Doom Castle

MP3 Audio CD. Count Victor's excursion to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, seeking for a conspirator to the Jacobite and a surreptitious person named Drimdarroch, whom he cursed to death. After an atrocious excursion, Count Victor reaches Doom Castle as a guest of an inscrutable Baron of Doom, his two odd slaves and his lovely daughter.

Doom Castle comprises these chapters: Count Victor Comes To A Strange Country; The Pursuit; Baron of Doom; Wanted, a Spy; The Flageolet; Mungo Boyd; The Bay Of The Boar's Head; An Apparition; Trapped; Sim Mactaggart, Chamberlain; The Woman At The Window; Omens and Alarms; A Lawyer's Good Lady; Clamour; A Ray Of Light; Olivia; A Sentimental Secret; "Loch Sloy!"; Revelation; An Evening's Melody In The Boar's Head Inn; Count Victor Changes His Quarters; The Lonely Lady; A Man Of Noble Sentiment; A Broken Tryst; Reconciliation; The Duke's Ball; The Duel On The Sands; The Duel On The Sands Continued; The Cell In The Fosse; A Ducal Disputation; Flight; The Indiscretion Of The Duchess; Back in Doom; In Days Of Storm; A Damnatory Document; Love; The Futile Flageolet; A Warning; Betrayed by a Ballad; The Day Of Judgment; and Conclusion.

Neil Munro was a Scottish journalist, publication editor, writer and literary critic. He was a thoughtful author, still known mostly for his satirical short tales, first narrated stories using the pseudonym Hugh Foulis. The most famous of these tales are Clyde puffer the Vital Spar and her captain Para Handy, though they also assimilate tales of the ocean and kirk beadle Erchie MacPherson and the nomadic clothing personnel Jimmy Swan. They were primarily made known in the Glasgow Evening News, these were printed in a book form. A preeminent character in Scottish literary circles, Munro was a colleague of the authors J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and Joseph Conrad, and the artistes Edward A. Hornel, and more.