2023/135: Hare House — Sally Hinchcliffe

2023/135: Hare House — Sally Hinchcliffe

‘It’s not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It’s just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where they buried folk like suicides and murderers. Witches. Bury them at the crossroads so their spirits get confused and can’t find their way home.’ [loc. 2112]

The never-named narrator of Hare House has been forced to give up teaching: on a holiday to Scotland, she impulsively decides to move to a cottage adjoining Hare House.( Read more... )