If you want a very strange little book to read, this is for you. It's written as a short series of letters, written right to you, turning up at the new lovely house you've just moved into with your partner. The person who lived there before wants to warn you, to tell them about how the thing that inhabits that beautiful house started haunting them, how they managed to get away - but they're not sure if you will, honestly.
In just fifty pages, it sets a perfectly creepy, tense atmosphere, drawing in the classic essence of a ghost story with unique storytelling and a never-ending sense of dread and fear. It's a simple, short no-nonsense ghost story that is a brilliant way to spend twenty minutes of reading and then a few hours of checking dark corners.
"Dear friend,
This is no chain letter, hoax or prank.
It is a sincere warning about your home and the entity which dwells within.
Your home has been haunted for quite some time.
I am sorry that I could not personally deliver this document. I did not even post it myself. The postmark on the envelope will not help you, should you ever attempt to locate me.
When this letter is complete, I shall entrust a friend in another country with repackaging and sending it on my behalf. This letter also may or may not have been translated from its original language.
You do not know me. You must never know me.
Neither do I know you, beyond your name, address and appearance. I have seen you in person but you have not seen me.
Think back to the day that you moved into your home. I contrived to casually pass by as you stood outside. I saw your face, but you did not so much as glance my way. I did not stop walking. I simply committed your face to memory and moved on before you became aware of my presence.
Why did I want to see you?
I suppose my conscience drove me to it. Just as it compels me to finally write this letter.
I wanted to see exactly who I was passing the entity on to."
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