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Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald abandon their hectic London life and settle on the rugged Devon coast, lured by the intriguingly cheap Cliff End house that locals regard as an omen of ill‑treatment. As they begin to unpack their new surroundings, the siblings discover the house’s eerie history involving the mysterious deaths of Mary Meredith and another young woman. The Fitzgeralds soon realize that the house’s resident Stella, raised there as an infant, will not return to the nursery where a secret presence awaits to claim her. Their quest to untangle the supernatural events that haunt Cliff End places the sisters in danger, as they face a gripping horror rooted in the house’s unnerving past.
First publish date: 1942
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Dorothy MacArdle
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