“Perfect fare for a standard dark and stormy night. “Wilkie Collins would be proud: this is a Victorian world of mesmerism and spirits, vapours and delirium, doomed inheritances, shivery maids and spooky visitations in the night.”- Times (UK) He hints, he insinuates, he muddies, to build tension, suspense, and shudders. Using journals as a technique to tell the story adds an immediacy to the narrative and creates a bond between readers and the 'journal authors'. His descriptions of Wraxford and the woods are excellent. “Harwood has written a true gothic, and invented a supremely creepy house to stage it in.”- Salon John Harwood generates a creepy atmosphere in this novel. And she must descend into the darkness at the heart of the Wraxford Mystery to find the truth, even at the cost of her life.

Years before, a family disappeared at Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation. For Constance’s bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains-and murder.

So begins The Séance, John Harwood’s brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late-Victorian England. John Harwood The Seance Paperback Maby John Harwood (Author) 429 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.34 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 19.95 31 Used from 3.23 3 New from 19.95 3 Collectible from 8.04 Paperback 4.74 10 Used from 4.73 3 New from 16. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance: perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. ” Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance’s sister, the child she lost. “Sell the Hall unseen burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will but never live there. “An electrifying Victorian ghost story” from the International Horror Guild Award-winning author of The Asylum ( The Seattle Times).

The seance by john harwood