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    612-822-4611

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The House At Lychgate Lane

The House At Lychgate Lane

Halloway, J. M.

Paperback

Horror

ISBN10: 1291686592
ISBN13: 9781291686593
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: May 18 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
When Eleanor Harrison, a pragmatist with a PhD in biochemistry, moves her family into Lychgate Cottage in late October, she expects nothing more challenging than damp rot and country isolation. The handsome Georgian property in Ashwick Hollow seems idyllic-aside from the ancient, lichen-covered graveyard running flush against the kitchen wall. Guided by strict empirical logic, Eleanor scoffs at superstition. The dead are just molecules slowly becoming soil. But old houses have long memories, and the soil here is restless. Within weeks, the cottage begins to defy rational explanation. A heavy oak table shifts spontaneously. Objects are meticulously rearranged overnight. Her nine-year-old daughter, Maisie, begins drawing floating crockery and talking companionably to the man in the walls. When Eleanor discovers the digital footprint of Thomas Alderton-a previous tenant who died mysteriously in the kitchen after reporting identical, escalating poltergeist activity-her scientific skepticism turns to cold reality. As the winter solstice approaches, the phenomena boil over into violent, kinetic disturbances, forcing Eleanor to look beyond textbooks for answers. Aided by a university parapsychologist, she uncovers a centuries-old cycle of tragic occupants, stretching back to the home's 18th-century builder who did not live in peace. The House at Lychgate Lane is a atmospheric, slow-burning supernatural drama that trades conventional horror tropes for a deeply moving exploration of history and haunting. It is not a story of malice, but of the desperate, crushing weight of three hundred years of history demanding to be acknowledged. To survive the longest night of the year, Eleanor must put aside her demand for data and learn the most difficult scientific lesson of all: how to listen to the unseen.

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