The niece of James Fenimore Cooper and a good friend and correspondent of Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson was a well known short story writer in the later part of the 19th century. Famous for her "local colour" stories, Woolson's work also touched on many similar themes to her contemporary H
The Stone House
โ Scribed by Patrick Ness
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Don't go near the house, whatever you do. It wants the lonely, the lost, the vulnerable. It wants you.
Tanya keeps having bad dreams about the old stone house around the corner from Coal Hill School--and a girl trapped there, screaming and terrified. When Tanya and her friends go to investigate the strange house covered in cobwebs, they stumble onto their own worst nightmares come to life. Their individual horrors are led by a ghost without a face. A ghost that Tanya's friend Ram himself described on an urban legend site. A ghost he had invented. . . .
In spite of the danger, Tanya is determined to free the mysterious girl in the house. But they are running out of time--the house is scheduled for demolition. With the help of their teacher Miss Quill, Tanya and three other kids prepare to fight their nightmares, and whatever other monsters they hear scuttling around in the walls. But how can they fight against monsters that are supposed...
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