The House on Mourning Hill

A woman settling a relative's estate finds a manor that has no intention of letting her — or its secrets — leave.

• Gothic horror about a manor that refuses to let its secrets go
• A writer's research trip that becomes a fight to leave
• A family burden waiting patiently to claim someone new

“The taxi driver refused to take Clara Whitmore all the way up the hill, stopping instead at the bottom of a long, overgrown drive and informing her, with the flat, unbothered certainty of a local who'd had this exact conversation with previous visitors, that he'd "rather walk to hell himself than drive a paying fare up to that house after dark." Clara had laughed it off at the time, paid her fare, and hauled her single suitcase up the quarter-mile of cracked, weed-choked pavement toward Blackwood Manor with the particular determined excitement of a writer who had finally, after three failed book proposals, found a subject worth staking her career on.”

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Length: A full short story — about 25–35 minutes to read.

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