The Quiet Was Worse: The South Shields Poltergeist (The Truth Beneath the Darkness)
A family. An ordinary home. Something that refused to leave them alone.
South Shields, North East England. 2005.
It began with little things.
A shower running in an empty bathroom. Knocking from rooms where nobody stood. Household objects appearing where they had never been left.
Marianne and Marc tried to explain it away. Old plumbing. Loose floorboards. Forgotten movements. The ordinary faults of an ordinary home.
But the disturbances grew harder to dismiss.
Furniture moved. Toys behaved impossibly. Their young son, Robert, began speaking about things his parents could not explain.
Then came the injuries.
And the knives.
As fear tightened its grip on the household, paranormal investigators were drawn into a case that would become one of Britain's most disturbing reported poltergeist investigations.
Yet the most terrifying moments were not always those filled with noise, violence or destruction.
Sometimes the house became completely still.
And the family could only wonder what might happen next.
Inspired by the reported South Shields Poltergeist case of 2005-2006, The Quiet Was Worse is a chilling work of historical horror fiction that explores what happens when the one place you should feel safe becomes the place you fear most.
Drawing on published accounts while bringing the family's ordeal to life through fictional reconstruction, Michael Riddell delivers a slow-burning descent into dread, uncertainty and psychological terror.
Because sometimes the worst thing a haunting can do is stop making noise.
Book Seven in The Truth Beneath the Darkness - Michael Riddell's ongoing collection of horror novels inspired by reported real events.
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