The book “The Curse of the Catafalques” was written by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. He wrote this book under his pen name F Anstey, it is a supernatural story. The main character of this story is a young man sent to Australia by his uncle to work. As the story goes, there he meets a man named McFadden who charges him with finding a young woman named Chlorine, who is about to be betrothed to him.