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The Confirmed Bachelors
Paperback
Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9781917173094
Publisher: Black Shuck Books
Published: Nov 27 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From Stephen Volk, award-winning author of The Dark Masters Trilogy and The Good Unknown, and screenwriter of Gothic and Ghostwatch.
-The Confirmed Bachelors-
It should be stated at the outset, for those who expect a certain kind of thing from a certain kind of tale, that, when investigating Arilda House in his capacity as a member of the Society for Psychical Research, Flaxton found no evidence, let alone proof, of a haunting. Not that he especially sought a preternatural explanation, nor did he - God forbid - leap to grasp any tenuous thread that might be clung to in that regard. Such lack of discipline would entirely go against the grain of his essentially sceptical nature. However, it must be said, and he almost did say, the place certainly looked the part...
-The Waiting Room-
Our hosts, such as they were, did not seem as subject to the cold as we did, remaining cheerful beyond requirement as they furnished us with cups of tea. We had not divulged the exact purpose for our coming, though one of them at least had experienced the phenomenon, and I could only reason that their lightness of spirit was born of the knowledge that they would soon be off to a warm bed, and we would not...
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