The Prisoner of Hell Gate : A Novel by Dana I. Wolff download ebook PDF, TXT
9781250089700 English 1250089700 A TWISTED WORK OF LITERARY HORROR, FEATURING ONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY'S MOST NOTORIOUS AND PERSECUTED FIGURES--TYPHOID MARY Karalee Soper, a graduate student in public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon----the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. On a summer evening, while partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate----in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades----and can't resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit. Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they've mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don't know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don't know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don't know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects., A TWISTED WORK OF LITERARY HORROR, FEATURING ONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY'e(tm)S MOST NOTORIOUS AND PERSECUTED FIGURES'e"TYPHOID MARY Karalee Soper, a graduate student in public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon'e"'e"the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. On a summer evening, while partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate'e"'e"in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades'e"'e"and can'e(tm)t resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit. Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they'e(tm)ve mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don'e(tm)t know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don'e(tm)t know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don'e(tm)t know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects., An instant classic of supernatural suspense centered on a group of friends who find themselves unwittingly trapped on an island with a vengeful Typhoid Mary.In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan's most privileged quarters.George's great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island-bantering, taking pictures, recalling history-they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them-and plots against them.When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned-their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone's imagination.Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York's foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they'd rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night., DANA I. Wolff's "THE PRISONER OF HELL GATE, "A TWISTED WORK OF LITERARY HORROR, FEATURING ONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY S MOST NOTORIOUS AND PERSECUTED FIGURES TYPHOID MARYIn the Hell Gate section of New York s East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan s most privileged quarters. George s great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island bantering, taking pictures, recalling history they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them and plots against them.Death doesn t only visit Hell Gate. It comes to stay.As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone s imagination.Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York s foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they d rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.", FOUR DECADES AFTER TYPHOID MARY WENT TO HER GRAVE, FIVE CURIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE ALIVE FROM THE ABANDONED ISLAND THAT ONCE IMPRISONED HER. CONTAGION DOESN T DIE. IT JUST WAITS.In the Hell Gate section of New York s East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan s most privileged quarters.George s great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island bantering, taking pictures, recalling history they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them and plots against them.When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone s imagination.Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York s foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they d rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.", Karalee Soper, a graduate student at Havermeyer University's school of public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon-the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. So when partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate-in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades-and can't resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit.Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they've mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don't know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don't know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don't know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects. - For readers of Sara Gran, Joe Hill, Peter Straub, and Richard Matheson, There are few ways off this island for the living. Even fewer for the dead. 1915-Eminent Typhoid researcher George Soper is tasked with investigating a series of Typhoid Fever outbreaks-and deaths-at the homes of several wealthy New York families. His research leads him to Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, the live-in cook of the affected families. Soper tracks down a defiant Mary and quarantines her on North Brother Island, hidden off the coast of Manhattan, where she lives out the rest of her days in isolation. Mallon is remembered to history as the infamous Typhoid Mary. 1985-Five friends, all graduate students in public health, set out on the East River for a day of boating. One of them, Liberty Soper, granddaughter of George, convinces the rest to take a detour to North Brother Island, intent on exploring the darker corners of her family tree. Slammed into the rocks by the tidal vortex known as Hell Gate, the friends find themselves shipwrecked on the shore and face to face with a mysterious woman who lives on the grounds alone. Slowly, they realize that they might be trapped on the island with its most famous prisoner and that she's taken a sinister interest in her visitors, one of whom happens to have a familiar last name... In the tradition of Shirley Jackson if she wrote a season of American Horror Story , The Prisoner of Hell Gate is a deeply unsettling and expertly crafted work of literary horror. For readers of Sara Gran, Jack Ketchum, Paul Tremblay and Shirley Jackson
9781250089700 English 1250089700 A TWISTED WORK OF LITERARY HORROR, FEATURING ONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY'S MOST NOTORIOUS AND PERSECUTED FIGURES--TYPHOID MARY Karalee Soper, a graduate student in public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon----the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. On a summer evening, while partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate----in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades----and can't resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit. Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they've mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don't know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don't know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don't know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects., A TWISTED WORK OF LITERARY HORROR, FEATURING ONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY'e(tm)S MOST NOTORIOUS AND PERSECUTED FIGURES'e"TYPHOID MARY Karalee Soper, a graduate student in public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon'e"'e"the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. On a summer evening, while partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate'e"'e"in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades'e"'e"and can'e(tm)t resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit. Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they'e(tm)ve mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don'e(tm)t know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don'e(tm)t know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don'e(tm)t know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects., An instant classic of supernatural suspense centered on a group of friends who find themselves unwittingly trapped on an island with a vengeful Typhoid Mary.In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan's most privileged quarters.George's great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island-bantering, taking pictures, recalling history-they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them-and plots against them.When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned-their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone's imagination.Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York's foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they'd rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night., DANA I. Wolff's "THE PRISONER OF HELL GATE, "A TWISTED WORK OF LITERARY HORROR, FEATURING ONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY S MOST NOTORIOUS AND PERSECUTED FIGURES TYPHOID MARYIn the Hell Gate section of New York s East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan s most privileged quarters. George s great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island bantering, taking pictures, recalling history they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them and plots against them.Death doesn t only visit Hell Gate. It comes to stay.As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone s imagination.Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York s foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they d rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.", FOUR DECADES AFTER TYPHOID MARY WENT TO HER GRAVE, FIVE CURIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE ALIVE FROM THE ABANDONED ISLAND THAT ONCE IMPRISONED HER. CONTAGION DOESN T DIE. IT JUST WAITS.In the Hell Gate section of New York s East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan s most privileged quarters.George s great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island bantering, taking pictures, recalling history they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them and plots against them.When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone s imagination.Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York s foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they d rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.", Karalee Soper, a graduate student at Havermeyer University's school of public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon-the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. So when partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate-in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades-and can't resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit.Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they've mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don't know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don't know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don't know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects. - For readers of Sara Gran, Joe Hill, Peter Straub, and Richard Matheson, There are few ways off this island for the living. Even fewer for the dead. 1915-Eminent Typhoid researcher George Soper is tasked with investigating a series of Typhoid Fever outbreaks-and deaths-at the homes of several wealthy New York families. His research leads him to Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, the live-in cook of the affected families. Soper tracks down a defiant Mary and quarantines her on North Brother Island, hidden off the coast of Manhattan, where she lives out the rest of her days in isolation. Mallon is remembered to history as the infamous Typhoid Mary. 1985-Five friends, all graduate students in public health, set out on the East River for a day of boating. One of them, Liberty Soper, granddaughter of George, convinces the rest to take a detour to North Brother Island, intent on exploring the darker corners of her family tree. Slammed into the rocks by the tidal vortex known as Hell Gate, the friends find themselves shipwrecked on the shore and face to face with a mysterious woman who lives on the grounds alone. Slowly, they realize that they might be trapped on the island with its most famous prisoner and that she's taken a sinister interest in her visitors, one of whom happens to have a familiar last name... In the tradition of Shirley Jackson if she wrote a season of American Horror Story , The Prisoner of Hell Gate is a deeply unsettling and expertly crafted work of literary horror. For readers of Sara Gran, Jack Ketchum, Paul Tremblay and Shirley Jackson