Rape of the Soul

Fiction & Literature, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical
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Author: Dawn Thompson ISBN: 1230000923781
Publisher: Highland Press Publishing Publication: February 3, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Dawn Thompson
ISBN: 1230000923781
Publisher: Highland Press Publishing
Publication: February 3, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English

The house seemed to beckon her.

Welcome her.

As if it knew her.

The light had faded, and dark, bilious clouds had taken its place. In the three short weeks I've spent in Cornwell, I'd learned two things: that the weather was not to be trusted, and that the wind never ceased to blow. Fair weather or foul, it whistled and murmured and moaned, like a living, breathing, tortured being. It had risen since it played innocently among the foxglove blooms earlier stirring the mists along the graveyard gate. Now it was angry, driving the black clouds inland from the sea. Waterfowl raced before it blotting the sky like a blizzard over the mighty house, and I'd scarely pulled the car to a stop when the rains came. 

It was just as I remembered it from my drive-by earlier, like a creature of myth silhouetted against the storm - a huge, rambling, turreted structure of stone and timbers defying its existence in such a setting. Yet, aside from a wounded turret, a few missing boards, and a good deal of broken glass, Cragmoor approached the dawn of another century remarkably intact.

I tried to imagine the house as it must have been, ablaze with light and life, surrounded by manicured lawns and courtyards and lush, fragrant gardens. Now it rose from a tangled snarl of briar, thorn, and desolation. Row upon row of darkened windows, catching stray glints of the fading light, shuddered in the wind as the gate bore down on it. The house was asleep, and I was about to wake it.

 

 

 

 

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The house seemed to beckon her.

Welcome her.

As if it knew her.

The light had faded, and dark, bilious clouds had taken its place. In the three short weeks I've spent in Cornwell, I'd learned two things: that the weather was not to be trusted, and that the wind never ceased to blow. Fair weather or foul, it whistled and murmured and moaned, like a living, breathing, tortured being. It had risen since it played innocently among the foxglove blooms earlier stirring the mists along the graveyard gate. Now it was angry, driving the black clouds inland from the sea. Waterfowl raced before it blotting the sky like a blizzard over the mighty house, and I'd scarely pulled the car to a stop when the rains came. 

It was just as I remembered it from my drive-by earlier, like a creature of myth silhouetted against the storm - a huge, rambling, turreted structure of stone and timbers defying its existence in such a setting. Yet, aside from a wounded turret, a few missing boards, and a good deal of broken glass, Cragmoor approached the dawn of another century remarkably intact.

I tried to imagine the house as it must have been, ablaze with light and life, surrounded by manicured lawns and courtyards and lush, fragrant gardens. Now it rose from a tangled snarl of briar, thorn, and desolation. Row upon row of darkened windows, catching stray glints of the fading light, shuddered in the wind as the gate bore down on it. The house was asleep, and I was about to wake it.

 

 

 

 

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