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And the Sea Gave Up the Dead

William Friend · Horror

63 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

gothic atmospherehaunted settingtrauma recoveryghostssmall town
supernatural horrorgothic

#21 This Month · #294 All Time

About this book

For fans of Jennifer Thorne's Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend's latest stunning novel where grief, mystery, and something undead haunt a young woman and her family, and soon, a dark history will repeat itself. Some grief echoes. Some grief knocks. When Morwenna receives a troubling call from her reclusive Aunt Bethan, she reluctantly returns to the family's crumbling chateau by the French seaside. Bethan has lived there alone for years—ever since her husband vanished in circumstances the locals are still gripped by. Some whisper she killed him. Others claim something older, and far worse, took him. What Morwenna finds is a house warped by grief. Rooms shift when no one is looking. Time seems to shift there, too. And the deeper Morwenna digs, the more the chateau seems aware of her presence... hungry for it. Worse, it seems drawn to her children. Local folklore speaks of revenants rising from the sea, of creatures returning when the veil thins and old

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