

I loved the premise of centuries-old folklore based on harrowing truths with a malevolent entity at its core. STORY: First of all, let me say that Long Lankin is now among my favourite horror novels, earning its place with the scariest of the scary. Four children go from trespassing and exploring an old forsaken church and its graveyard to stumbling upon a centuries-old mystery, dark kept secrets, a family curse and an ancient terror laying in wait. Bryers-Guerdon is a small, isolated, gloomy town surrounded by acres of countryside and foreboding marshland.


Electricity was scare, and so were methods of communication. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: (*Spolier-free*) This pulse-pounding listen set in Britain during the 1950's reflects an era when the war had just ended and poverty was a common.
