Secrets of Blackwood Manor

✍ Scribed by Mortaza Tokhy

• Book ID: 115254313
• Publisher: True American Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The oppressive heat of July 1982 bore down on the small town of Brisby, Iowa, where two young friends were about to tempt fate in the most horrifying way. For years, the dilapidated Blackwood Manor sat decrepit on the outskirts, a looming presence that parents warned their children never to approach. Tales were whispered of three kids who ventured inside over six decades ago, never to be seen again. Their disappearances had calcified into local lore, fueling the sinister reputation of the crumbling edifice.

Fourteen-year-old best friends Marvin Lott and the narrator should have heeded the ominous stories, but the thrill of defying such taboos on the last day of summer freedom proved too tantalizing. As dusk fell, they made their way through the overgrown grounds, the manor's shadow engulfing them like a vile mist. Every rotting timber and shattered window seemed to dare them onward into the beckoning darkness within.

The boys' first hesitant steps across the...