The Toll House: Discover this autumn's most spinetingling ghost story thriller

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Suppose we all go?" said Meagle. "Start after supper, and get there about eleven? We have been walking for ten days now without an adventure--except Barnes's discovery that ditch-water smells longest. It will be a novelty, at any rate, and, if we break the spell by all surviving, the grateful owner ought to come down handsome."

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From a reader's perspective, this book has pace and provides all the chills. It follows a fairly well-trodden path, but it doesn't matter because it's well done and a debut to be proud of. I am nervous, but rational," he said, blowing out a thin cloud of smoke. "My nerves tell me that there is something prowling up and down the long passage outside; my reason tells me that that is all nonsense. Where are my cards?" A book that feels like it’s watching you . . . unsettling and gripping’ Cari Thomas author of THREADNEEDLEA house with History. Who doesn’t love knowing that the property you are moving in to has seen and heard so much over the years, from the many families building new beginnings, to the cycle starting all over again! How wonderful! Meagle laughed. "I only wanted to convince you," he said kindly. "There ought to be, at any rate, one ghost in the servants' hall."

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Since his death, I have been searching for a replacement or at least someone that could come close to evoking the same fear and genuine thrill. But this review is not about Herbert!He is coming round," said Meagle, with a smirk. "By the time I have done with him he will be a confirmed believer. Well, who will go and get some water? Will, you, Barnes?" He held the candle forward and showed where the balusters had broken away. Then he peered curiously into the void beneath. Escape the cold and join us in our charming inn for a festive feast to remember. Our talented chefs have crafted a seasonal treat for your taste buds, partnering the classics we know and love with some local flair.

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It's no good," he said at last, and, turning from them, watched Meagle. "Don't you go to sleep," he said anxiously. a touch of gothic horror, gruesomeness, spooks, twists and turns and ghostly goings on..... I dare you to dive inHe followed slowly for fear of extinguishing the candle, until they led him at last into a vast bare kitchen, with damp walls and a broken floor. In front of him a door leading into an inside room had just closed. He ran towards it and flung it open, and a cold air blew out the candle. He stood aghast. R.F. Kuang, Sue Lynn Tan, Rebecca Ross, Kate Heartfield, N.E. Davenport, Saara El-Arifi, Juno Dawson and Sunyi Dean If you like a good ghost story put this chilling thriller to the very top of your reading list -- SARAH PEARSE author of THE SANATORIUM Well, there is the house," said Meagle, "a large house at an absurdly low rent, and nobody will take it. It has taken toll of at least one life of every family that has lived there--however short the time--and since it has stood empty caretaker after caretaker has died there. The last caretaker died fifteen years ago." Inexplicable happenings take place within the walls and Kelda cannot shake the feeling she is being watched, paired with Dylan suffering from nightmares which seem too real with ghostly figures watching him in his room, Kelda has to look into the dark and gruesome history of this house that has seen far too much horror take place within but perhaps it’s all in her head as the pressure of her new job and the arrival of her sister start to take their toll, leaving her to wonder just what is real and what is Dylan making up?