Chingle Hall
On the outskirts of the village, down a quiet lane, there sits a house.
Just another old house in another old village. Except Goosnargh is not just any old village and Chingle Hall is not just any old house
Shielded from the roadside by reaching oaks and curtains of willow, Chingle has sat here in sullen isolation for an age. The lane is peaceful, near silent save for the song of blackbirds and the whisper of fall leaves underfoot. The house is quiet too, but there is nothing natural about the silence that weeps from its windows and streaks down from its walls. It wearsthis abnormal hush like a funeral veil. It exists on a stunted breath, held centuries long.
The house is waiting.
Waiting for you.
Chingle Hall is the latest novel from Zowie Swan, set in and inspired by England's most haunted house.
The Bleak Midwinter
‘So that is our tradition, on old twelfy night we go, merriness in our cheeks and cider in our blood, to the orchard and hail the Quiet King. Many that observe the wassail do not truly believe in any repercussion in the event they fail to honour the Apple Tree Man. He is a fiction, a kindly and comforting one none the less, but a fiction all the same. This is what all rational minded men think of this tradition. They are wrong.’
In the shadows of the longest night, ten authors have gathered about the hearth to share tales of Yultide terror whilst a wild December wind howls at the brittle windowpanes. From the frozen horror of an arctic expedition to department stores and haunted houses, these are the tales of the Bleak Midwinter.
Convent Crescent
An abandoned B&B in 1998.
A brutal convent in 1940.
An evil as old as time.
Welcome to Convent Crescent.
“The atmosphere is darkly oppressive throughout. The tension is unrelenting.
So read, and be enthralled!”
– The Spooky Isles
