The House of Footsteps
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The House of Footsteps
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Narrated by:
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Joshua Manning
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By:
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Mathew West
About this listen
If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook…
It’s 1923 and at Thistlecrook House, a forbidding home on the Scottish border, the roaring twenties seem not to have arrived. But Simon Christie has – a young man who can’t believe his luck when he gets a job cataloguing the infamous art collection of the Mordrake family. Yet from the moment he gets off the train at the deserted village station he can’t shift a headache and a sense that there’s more to the House and its gruesome selection of pictures.
Simon’s host is glad of his company, but he gets the feeling the house is not so welcoming. As his questions about the Mordrakes grow, he finds answers in surprising places. But someone is not pleased that old secrets are stirring.
As night falls each evening, and a growing sense of unease roils in the shifting shadows around him, Simon must decide what he can trust and ask if he can believe what he sees in the dusk or if his mind is poisoned by what has happened before in this place between lands, between light and dark.
©2022 Mathew West (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedWhat listeners say about The House of Footsteps
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 03-09-2022
Atmospheric Gothic ghost tale - brilliant
The narrator was excellent and I loved the story. I enjoy Gothic ghost stories and this was fantastic. Kept me entertained all the way till the end!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Paul Rowan
- 13-07-2022
Not a favourite, but no regrets either.
Not exactly what I was expecting. The author seems to enjoy moments of sudden, directional change that leave the reader to catch up, and the narrative relies more on vague exposition than actual revelation to bring home its sparse developments. The tone is largely circumstantial, and I personally found it hard to care about the characters or the plot. The final chapter ended with a sense of disappointment that I had predicted and accepted from around an hour earlier.
The narrator does a good job, even if he does occasionally forget his accent for a moment.
Overall, the book was neither interesting nor boring, but kept me to the end.
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