Chasing Ghosts
When Nicolas inherits the apartment in Spitalfields, he expects that the purge will take a week, at best: he’ll clear it out for sale and forget it ever existed. The place is ancient; an archive that seems to peer into 18th century London through its dusty rooms and trapped shadows. It seems to him that it was abandoned and forgotten, left behind by its owners as though they planned to return later. There are strange things, though: doors that won’t open to any key in his collection, a certain quality of trapped light, and the unsettled whispers that escape him at every turn…
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Quietly creepy!
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Thirteen subdued spooky tales
An ephemeral collection of wonders, terrors, and experiments in low-key horror — small slivers of darkness written over thirteen months. The collection has been described as quietly creepy.
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