The House in the High Wood

Name: The House in the High Wood
Author: Jeffrey E. Barlough

Strange things are afoot in the town of Shilston Upcot...

A mysterious owl hovers in the sky, watching and waiting. Mournful voices ring out in the night, crying for a lost child. Townsfolk toss and turn in their sleep, haunted by odd recurring dreams...

And high above the town – in a mansion-house that has stood empty since the terrible days when darkness was an art and fear was a ritual – a new light shines from a window. A new family has taken residence within its unholy walls. And now only one man, the reclusive squire Mark Trench, will dare to investigate the strange signs and omens, and confront the horrible truth: The nightmare has come home again...

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Published: 2001

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The Western Lights books are set in an Ice Age America that might have been, had historical – and prehistorical – events taken a different course. The imagined landscape of the series encompasses the western coast of North America, from what is now lower British Columbia to approximately San Diego.