The Silent Companions
Book • 2017
Newly widowed Elsie Bainbridge moves into her late husband's dilapidated home, The Bridge, where she discovers creepy life-sized wooden figures called silent companions that seem to move and watch her.
Accompanied by her husband's cousin Sarah, Elsie uncovers a dark family history through an old diary from 1635, amid suspicions from hostile servants and villagers.
The narrative weaves between Elsie's terrifying experiences, her time in an asylum as a scarred, mute patient recounting her story to a doctor, and ancestral horrors, building to a haunting climax of supernatural dread and inevitable tragedy.
Accompanied by her husband's cousin Sarah, Elsie uncovers a dark family history through an old diary from 1635, amid suspicions from hostile servants and villagers.
The narrative weaves between Elsie's terrifying experiences, her time in an asylum as a scarred, mute patient recounting her story to a doctor, and ancestral horrors, building to a haunting climax of supernatural dread and inevitable tragedy.
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