Herbert Howard Jones

The Dark Rotunda (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ralph and Leonie were made for each other; both lived a nine to five routine and had positive plans for the future and seemed destined for a happy life. Then an opportunity to buy an old mansion in their village came up which looked as if it would put them way up on the property ladder. But the auctioneer said there were problems with it which needed attending to.

It had to be modernised, and it was apparently cursed, or so people in the area claimed. However, oddly, when the couple went to visit the property, they found it in fine fettle, but it appeared to already have a tenant in it. In fact it only needed exterior repairs and could be lived-in straight away.

Obviously, the presence of another tenant was not what they bargained for, and so they decided to give the tenant his notice, except he or she couldn't be found. However, the house was full of beautiful Victorian and reproduction furniture which clearly belonged to the tenant. Frustrated by this, Ralph and Leonie decided to get rid of it and complain to the solicitor who had finalised the sale. And this was were things got decidedly weird. The solicitor was clearly trying to avoid them, which raised the obvious question as to why?

After doing some extensive digging, it became apparent that all was not how it initially appeared. It seemed that silly local rumour had a basis in fact. There was a possibility that Kindlewood really was cursed, and the appearance of apparitions and phantoms soon made themselves felt. To sensible people like Ralph and Leonie there had to be a logical and down-to-earth explanation for these spooky events, but the minister who lived next door at the rectory only compounded the mystery. To their discomfort they discovered that he was really a Satanist who had a very wide and evil influence in the area. But worse than all that, was the fact that he appeared to be trying to kill them and was coincidently in league with Ralph's own boss in London who had the same objective!

Ralph and Leonie needed to get to the bottom of it all, or abandon the property before disaster struck. But it turned out there was a very strange reason for all this which staggered their imaginations and soon became clear. Apparently they had been chosen for a strange special mission!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Herbert Howard Jones
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215090619
• Artikelnr.: 72240751

Autorenporträt

HERBERT HOWARD JONES grew up in Notting Hill, London in the sixties. He went to a boarding school in Norfolk and then local schools including Sloane School where crime writer John Creasy attended near the King's Road. When he left school he got numerous jobs, including as a porter at the BBC London, working as a jewellery assembler in a factory in Hatton Garden and also in a number of roles at a showbiz solicitor's office where he was a trainee legal executive and ran errands for a few of the British movie and music names of the time.

He is a creative spirit who also likes dabbling in music and art himself. When he was in the jewellery business he personally made over ten thousand 14 carat gold gate bracelets which was a great learning experience for him. However, he was more interested in media and always wanted to write suspense books with a melodramatic element and so spent years reading them and working on various projects. He is also interested in romantic and fantasy fiction. And despite being a Catholic he is interested in New Age literature, mythology and metaphysics.

But meeting people has always inspired him the most and he has had the good fortune to meet quite a few interesting people. He was personally friends with horror writer, Denis Wheatley's housekeeper when she lived in Blackheath, and knew poet John Pudney who lived nearby before he passed. One of the most interesting people that he met was the daughter of the Captain of the Titanic with whom he had tea in her cottage up in Suffolk. Miss Smith was a lady with a big personality and a very interesting home. She was surrounded with Titanic memorabilia wherever you looked. Jones was only a boy at the time and didn't appreciate the significance of all this stuff, but regrets not quizzing her on the catastrophic event which has forever featured large in shipping folklore!

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