Project Gutenberg 2025-07-13 Public domain in the USA. 317 Leroux, Gaston 1868 1927 Gage, George W. 1887 1957 Gage, G. W. Bennett, Hannaford 1867 1946 Bennett, Joseph Hannaford The new terror $aNew York :$bThe Macaulay Company, $c1926. Le cœur cambriolé. English Published in England under the title: The burgled heart. Hannaford Bennett is credited as translator of The burgled heart. The new terror -- A terrible tale -- The gold axe. Tim Miller, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The new terror" by Gaston Leroux is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a romantic-psychological mystery with occult overtones, in which a devoted young man, Hector, sees his lifelong love for his cousin Cordélia undermined by an enigmatic English painter whose art exerts an uncanny influence. Themes of hypnotic suggestion, auras, and the idea of a “stolen heart” drive the tension as love, jealousy, and belief collide. The opening of the novel follows Hector from childhood betrothal to Cordélia through his American sojourn and return, where he senses a troubling change in her tied to her art and a mysterious painter. Summoned to the gloomy estate of Vascoeuil, he learns Cordélia and her father have been abroad, sees a shadowy man at Hennequeville, and then hastily marries Cordélia upon their return. At the wedding an unsigned gift arrives: a luminous portrait of Cordélia, clearly by the English painter “Patrick,” which radiates a strange power. That night Cordélia claims she is “as cold as the portrait,” speaks fervently of auras and suggestion, gazes on the painting, and falls into a rigid hypnotic sleep; a local doctor fails, but the specialist Dr. Thurel identifies hypnotic influence and, after blowing on the portrait’s eyes, rouses her. She wakes speaking as if she has shared a moonlit walk and a “golden chamber,” memories that do not match Hector’s reality. The next day she is loving yet altered, and on the second night she is again drawn to the moonlit park, asks Hector to recite Byron as if replaying another man’s words, begs him to save her, and collapses once more into rigidity—leaving Hector terrified that an unseen rival is directing her soul. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/the-new-terror/mode/2up 20250101113504leroux 1926 US Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Suspense fiction Short stories, French -- Translations into English French fiction -- Translations into English Newlyweds -- Fiction Psychic ability -- Fiction PQ Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: French Literature 317371 2025-07-30T08:24:52.315335 text/html 292742 2025-07-13T10:31:03 text/html 576947 2025-07-30T08:25:00.009308 application/epub+zip 574125 2025-07-30T08:24:54.579356 application/epub+zip 283485 2025-07-30T08:24:53.360370 application/epub+zip 1802074 2025-07-30T08:25:03.769313 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1770310 2025-07-30T08:24:58.915312 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 268984 2025-07-30T08:24:51.647370 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 249061 2025-07-13T10:31:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16358 2025-07-30T08:25:03.949281 application/rdf+xml 13041 2025-07-30T08:24:53.600339 image/jpeg 2232 2025-07-30T08:24:53.481336 image/jpeg 621303 2025-07-30T08:24:52.349375 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia