Abbotsford Club Abbotsford Club The Abbotsford Club was a text publication society founded in Edinburgh in 1833 or 1834. This was the year after the death of Sir Walter Scott, whose residence of Abbotsford House gave the society its name, and whose literature the club's publications sought to illuminate. The club was modelled on the Roxburghe Club, of which Scott himself had been a member, as well as the Bannatyne Club, which was founded by Scott, and the Glasgow-centred Maitland Club. The founder and first secretary of the club was William Barclay Turnbull, a young Edinburgh lawyer. The stated objective of the
The House on Black Lake The House on Black Lake The House on Black Lake is a contemporary gothic suspense/romance novel by American author Anastasia Blackwell published by Creative Revolution in 2010. It is set in the underworld of Montreal society. Set in an enclave of summer homes for the power elite in the outskirts Montreal, the story follows world-weary American Alexandra Brighton as she travels with son Samuel to the home of Ruth and Ramey Sandeley. On the night of their arrival the mother and child stay in a dilapidated Victorian set on an island on Black Lake. Alexandra’s night of terror there sets