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Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story

Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story

Author(s): Daniel Pembrey

Location(s): South Carolina

Genre(s): Horror, Novella

Era(s): Modern

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“Daniel Pembrey tells a cracking tale with verve and style. He can write, the jury’s not out on that one…” Susan Hill, Booker Prize short-listed writer, and author of ghost story The Woman In Black

THE HORRORS OF FAMILY PAST (a short, sharp read): When London-based obituaries writer Simon Sixsmith receives a letter out of the blue telling him he’s inherited a property in the Southern US, he can’t but help fly out and investigate. Yet when Simon arrives in the marshy South Carolina Lowcountry, all is not as it first seemed. As he is drawn deeper into his ancestors’ plantation-owning history, his problematic personal life and the horrifying events around the property combine into a macabre conclusion.

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An imaginative story set in South Carolina.  Meet Simon, a hopeful author who makes his living from writing obituaries for a national newspaper. A letter informs him of an inheritance in America and he is...

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