Wandering Ghosts

A yellow cloud poisons the August light as Sir Hugh Ockram smiles—and his son and niece feel the same terrible smile pulling at their own lips.

At Ockram Hall, where the family dead are said to lie uncoffined beneath the chapel, a dying baronet warns Gabriel and Evelyn against marrying—then refuses to tell them why. They love each other, but Sir Hugh’s secret seems to cling to the house: an echo answers curses, and the old family vault holds a story of a headless body that will not stay at rest. In this late-nineteenth-century collection, F. Marion Crawford turns courtship into something perilous and the past into a presence that may be watching from beyond the walls. What has Sir Hugh seen in the young couple’s future?

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