Whipple's Castle Author:Thomas Williams Thomas Williams writes about Whipple's Castle: "Wipple's Castle is the third novel that has brought me back in thrall to the green town of Leah, New Hampshire. My feelings about the town are mixed. Love for it does not surface easily, yet Leah calls me back. I think we are all in the power of places more than we know. I know Leah. I seem to know... more » the inner places of an imaginary town that is more real to me now than any real town with a name like Lebanon, Alexandria, Bristol, Rochester, Hanover or Durham. These are New Hampshire towns, but none is Leah... But to get back to Whipple's Castle: the castle is a great, gaudy, electic Victorian pile so ugly it transcends its own bad taste-Somebody's monument to himself as Ozymandias. I admit to caring intensely for the people who call the castle home. The Whipples still haunt me, still walk around in my dream places, calling to each other. Their problems hurt me and their joys give me intense pleasure. Yet these are men and women, members of the two-legged race that has made terror and torture our daily bread. Terror we expect, but we are always surprised by love."« less