**Worse things than gators lurk in the Louisiana swamp. . . . The author of *The Faceless One* fuses the twisted imagination of Fritz Leiber with the razor-sharp plotting of Joe Hill in this rollicking horror thriller.** Appearances can be deceiving. Take Jimmy Kalmaku. Anyone passing him on
Deadlight Hall
β Scribed by Sarah Rayne
- Publisher
- Severn House Publishers;Severn House Digital
- Year
- 2014;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1780106203
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β¦ Synopsis
A long-ago crime continues to menace the present in this spine-chilling tale of supernatural suspense.
When Michael Flint is asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale's childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall β a tragedy that occurred towards the end of World War II, involving a set of twins who vanished. The fate of Sophie and Susannah Reiss was never discovered, and Leo has never been able to forget them.
When Michael, together with his fiancee Nell, begins to explore Deadlight Hall's history, he discovers that in the 1880s another pair of sisters vanished from the house β and that there may also be much older and darker secrets lurking within its walls.
As Michael and Nell gradually peel back the sinister layers of the Hall's unhappy past, they are unprepared for the eerie and threatening resonances they encounter β nor for the shocking...
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