An Edwardian Ghost Story

By Robert J Brennan

Fifty years of waiting. A house bound by grief. A truth hidden behind the stone.

It is 1967. Having moved into the isolated old vicarage in the autumn, Sandra and Chris hope it will be a peaceful sanctuary to raise their two young daughters. But as autumn turns into winter the house turns hostile. Trapped in a suffocating, unnatural chill, they are plagued by the frantic weeping of a ghostly mother and her three children echoing within the walls of the vicarage and within its grounds. When the institutional church turns its back on them, locking its doors under ancient canon law, Sandra and Chris are left entirely on their own. Deep within the house's layout, they uncover a sealed pantry wall that has been bricked up since the 1919 Spanish flu pandemic-hiding a forgotten military history belonging to a lost wartime Padre Captain. Something in the vicarage is trapped in an agonising loop of abandonment, waiting for a return that never comes. As Christmas arrives, the pressure inside the walls reaches a boiling point. Together they must find the courage to confront the history woven into the very fabric of the house before the shadows of the past consume their own family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911815253
• ISBN13: 9781911815259
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Robert J Brennan
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"