Uncanny Tales

“Rats or ghosts,” someone jokes while Leila’s family explores the deserted upper rooms of Finster St. Mabyn. She laughs with the others—but the words return to her memory.

In Mrs. Molesworth’s Uncanny Tales, an ancient house stands on a lonely point of land, sea on two sides and a ruined tower on the skyline. After illness, Leila’s family comes to Finster for the sea air, delighted by its strange old rooms and sure they have found a bargain. Then Leila buys a pair of antique tapestry panels from a dealer who will not name their former owners. The house is draughty, its upper rooms left to rats, and young Dormer is still delicate; what else might be waiting in the shadows?

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