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Haunting of Hern Hall

Long ago, three innocent children played a game—and the consequences still haunt their family, in this eerie tale set in post–World War I England . . .

After the horror of the First World War, disillusioned army chaplain John Elliot arrives at Hern Hall, an isolated estate in the English countryside. Despite suffering from shellshock, John has made a promise to his friend Will, who died in the trenches while saving John’s life. A promise he’s determined to keep.

John meets Will’s sister Lucy, a beautiful, blind, and mysterious young woman, and is introduced to Will’s grieving parents, Lord and Lady Chiddingstone. But the house, shrouded by mist, seems to be tormented by some tragic past . . .

After being invited to stay at Hern Hall, he has a series of unsettling and eerie encounters—even attending a séance conducted by the infamous Madame Blanche, a spiritualist medium who Lady Chiddingstone hopes can communicate with her dead sons.

As John grows closer to the family, he uncovers more about their traumatic history, and the disturbing secrets hiding in the walls and tunnels of their great house. Is the family cursed as an ancient legend tells? And if so, can the ghosts and the living ever find peace—or are they destined to be forever haunted by death?

G.R. Pidgeon

G. R. Pidgeon has spent the last twenty years as Head of English at leading state and independent schools in Kent, aiming to inspire the next generation of readers and writers. He is also an English Subject Leader for The Prince’s Teaching Institute, developing the subject knowledge of new teachers, and specialising in Victorian and Gothic Literature, as well as the Romantic Poets.

Gaining an MA at the University of Sussex and a PGCSE at the University of Bath, G. R. Pidgeon also studied for a year at the University of California, San Diego, spending most of his time driving a vintage 1974 Cadillac Coupe de Ville up and down the Pacific coast, hiking in Yosemite National Park, and working as a runner on a TV show for the Discovery Channel.

G. R. Pidgeon lives with his wife and three children on the North Surrey Downs, close to the Ashdown Forest and the High Weald, a landscape rich with ivy-strewn manor houses and Tudor castles. Most weekends he is to be found exploring the forgotten corners of ancient parish churches, reading the faded inscriptions on the backs of toppled gravestones, or climbing up winding staircases in search of secret passages.
 

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