Horror as a setting
Horror as a bookish setting
There are great horror reads out there – The Shining and most of Stephen King stands out – but there are two books that really capture the remote residence in the dark countryside that are perfect for this time of year.
The Bridge, is a crumbling estate somewhere in England and it appears in two of Laura Purcell’s books – The Silent Companions and The House of Splinters.
If anyone finds china dolls or wooden figures scary….well……
Locations in Silent Companions
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Locations in Silent Companions
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Locations in Silent Companions
Locals believe the house is cursed, once inhabited by a strange presence…
A house with a history of numerous strange deaths and accidents.
Locations in Silent Companions
The Bridge is compelling:
“Outside the sky was iron grey, the monotony broken only by crows. Mile after mile and the scenery did not change. Stubble fields, skeletal trees.”
The ‘companions’:
These are chilling! Wooden figures, painted faces intended to startle. One looks uncannily like Elsie who lives in the house
The companions appear to move
New ones seem to appear
All of these menacing and staring into oblivion……
Locations in Silent Companions
“They didn’t get newspapers in the day room – at least, not when she had been allowed in there – but rumours had a way of seeping under doors and through cracks in the walls”
One of the scariest bits is when even the animals start to notice the evil in the air….
“And yet the horses were uneasy, their ears flat, the whites of their eyes rolling. Beatrice the cow was keeping well back in her stable, lipping another clump of hay from her net. The animals knew. Animals always sensed these things.”
And the chilling adventure continues in The House of Splinters as we return to The Bridge and…………..
Well are you ready to meet the companions once again?
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Silent Companions and House of Splinters
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