Spring Darkness

"Spring Darkness," by John Metcalfe, laid in the dreariest of London suburbs, is dominated in macabre fashion by the figure of Mrs. Condover herself, a repulsive and terrible religious fanatic, whose hopeless love for an evangelist drives her to suicide. The love affair of her daughter, Vera, a beautiful, blind nymphomaniac, and young Kenneth Bly never escapes from her shadow, even after her death, and reaches an ending so disastrous as to form a completely, artistic conclusion to a story which in less competent hands might easily have been ruined in its final pages."