Andrew, the protagoist of The White Devil, is a disturbed seventeen years old boy; his father sends him to Harrow School, a prestigious boarding school in Great Britain. Soon one of his friends die from a severe illness - and others believe that he has to do something with it. Worst of all, a pale boy appears in his dormitory room: an unearthly visitor.
One of Andrew's schoolmates, Piers, writes a play about Byron who was also a student of Harrow. Andrew himself is to play Byron, and he notices that there are several similarities between the two of them. The mysteries of Byron's life seem to affect his present time...
This is, like the school's name suggest, a harrowing story, atmospheric and eerie, with an insight of the lives of élite school students. Highly recommended to fans of supernatural thrillers and Gothic literature.
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