The Seance, (Paperback)

from JaneSteen

A nice spooky gothic novel complete with clairvoyance, cruel parents, a monk, lightning rods and a suit of armor. A book to be read by lamplight in a darkened room with the wind howling outside. And yet the author is not merely writing within the gothic genre; he is to some extent standing outsid...

from ocgreg34

Constance Langton always felt like an outsider in her own family, even moreso when her younger sister Alma dies. Her Mother shuts down, lamenting on and on about Alma so Constance takes her to see a séance. When things go too well and her Mother sinks deeper into her depression, shutting herself ...

from Laurenbdavis

ell, THAT was fun! A terrific Victorian ghost-story thriller! Clearly Harwood is giving a tip of his cap to Wilkie Collins and perhaps Arthur Conan Doyle, but the work isn't derivative. It is genuinely spooky, well-constructed and beautifully paced. The complicated structure of narratives within ...

from ruinedbyreading

The Seance is interesting with lots of plot twists and turns. I was actually expecting the book to go in an entirely different direction after reading the first part. I was expecting some ghost story of mystery about the seances that the main character, Constance, attends. Instead, it follows sev...

from bcquinnsmom

"sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt if you will; but never live there." This is the advice to Miss Constance Langton from John Montague, the solicitor who as advised Miss Langton of her inheritance of Wraxford Hall. The Seance is set in Victorian England, a...