{"product_id":"the-house-on-the-strand","title":"The House on the Strand","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this haunting tale  Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction  once imbibed  allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.  Magnus Lane  a University of London chemical researcher  asks his friend Richard Young and Youngs family to stay at Kilmarth  an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Here  Richard drinks a potion created by Magnus and finds himself at the same spot where he was moments earlierthough it is now the fourteenth century. The effects of the drink wear off after several hours  but it is wildly addictive  and Richard cannot resist traveling back and forth in time. Gradually growing more involved in the lives of the early Cornish manor lords and their ladies  he finds the presence of his wife and stepsons a hindrance to his new-found experience. Richard eventually finds emotional refuge with a beautiful woman of the past trapped in a loveless marriage  but when he attempts to intervene on her behalf the results are brutally terrifying for the present.  Echoing the great fantastic stories of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe  The House on the Strand is a masterful yarn of history  romance  horror  and suspense that will grip the reader until the last surprising twist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945505222709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812217268","price":29.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812217261_a785c18e-8cae-4663-aed4-abf9cf6a13c9.jpg?v=1770143203","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-house-on-the-strand","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}