The cover page is adapted from The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse), a painting completed circa 1908 by Albert Pinkham Ryder. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pinkham_Ryderwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Portent
Chapters (28)
- Dedication 0:00
- I: My Boyhood 2:59
- II: The Second Hearing 13:01
- III: My Old Nurses Story 20:46
- IV: Hilton Hall 53:27
- V: Lady Alice 1:01:03
- VI: My Quarters 1:08:11
- VII: The Library 1:14:36
- VIII: The Somnambulist 1:21:26
- IX: The First Waking 1:27:31
- X: Love and Power 1:35:24
- XI: A New Pupil 1:49:33
- XII: Confession 1:58:22
- XIII: Questioning 2:06:16
- XIV: Jealousy 2:10:54
- XV: The Chamber of Ghosts 2:15:49
- XVI: The Clanking Shoe 2:26:49
- XVII: The Physician 2:41:40
- XVIII: Old Friends 2:50:41
- XIX: Old Constancy 2:55:07
- XX: Margaret 3:00:33
- XXI: Hilton 3:25:00
- XXII: The Sleeper 3:33:13
- XXIII: My Old Room 3:42:58
- XXIV: Prison-Breaking 3:53:08
- XXV: New Entrenchments 4:01:07
- XXVI: Escape 4:09:51
- XXVII: Freedom 4:18:42
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Duncan Campbell, a young Scotsman, is burdened by “second sight,” a hereditary gift manifesting as a terrifying auditory omen of a horse with a dangling shoe. Seeking a reprieve from these supernatural afflictions, he accepts a tutoring position at Hilton Hall in northern England. There, he becomes fascinated by the daughter of the house, a woman whose waking life is defined by a strange mental vacancy, but who possesses a profound and hidden soul while in a state of somnambulism. As Duncan attempts to bridge the gap between her two identities, he realizes that his ancestral legacy may have followed him across the border.