A boy ends up in a gloomy old house by the river and meets Miss Duveen - a neighbour who’s equal parts charming, odd, and quietly unsettling. It starts with casual chats in a garden... but the longer it goes on, the more it feels like there’s something slightly wrong beneath the surface. Walter de la Mare delivers that perfect slow-burn kind of eerie: more whisper than scream, and impossible to shake once you’ve stepped into it.

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