The Droll Teller: A Ghostly Novella
Sarah England
5.00 · 1 ratings · Published: 28 Jan 2023
'1962, and on Christmas Day at precisely 6pm, a mysterious old man by the name of Silas Finn, calls on the new owners of an ancestral home in Devon, and asks which they'd prefer to hear - a story or a song. Ten year-old Enys Quiller is adamant they must have a story, just as Cousin Beatrice instructed.
'I'd be glad if you told me dreckly, what the real story is,' says Beatrice. 'And then you could tell me.'
But the strange and macabre tale of Victorian poisoning and madness that follows, has far-reaching repercussions on Enys and her parents, and after the droll teller has finished, any notion of staying there, or even together, is shattered.
Author note: contains some dialect in the dialogue.
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