A house with a sinister past - and a grisly power - When Michael Flint
is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they
have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his
Oxford study. But when he sees Charect House, its uncanny echoes from
the past fascinate him - even though it has such a sinister reputation
that no one has lived there for almost a century. But it's not until
Michael meets the young widow, Nell West, that the menace within the
house wakes . . .